1. Machine Certificate Stores
The screen above shows one of the two types of Certificate Stores that is Machine Certificate Stores.
The two kind of certificates are:
The '.pfx' file contains both public key and private key.
The '.cer' file contains only public key.
Public key is used to encrypt a file and private key is used to decrypt.
So, we will use '.pfx' file for our self as it has both public key and private key.The '.cer' file containing only public key is used for our Trading Partners.