Cryptographic Services Provides four management services: Catalog Database Service, which confirms the signatures of Windows files and allows new programs to be installed; Protected Root Service, which adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from this computer; Automatic Root Certificate Update Service, which retrieves root certificates from Windows Update and enable scenarios such as SSL; and Key Service, which helps enroll this computer for certificates. If this service is stopped, these management services will not function properly. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

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(1) GPO: Computer ConfigurationWindows SettingsSecurity SettingsSystem Services!Cryptographic Services (2) REG: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetservicesCryptSvc!Start