Certificate Authentication “The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.”

[KamalpreetSingh]

We have imported a .pfx certificate under Personal store. It creates Root, Intermediate and Client certificate in Personal store.

This certificate is used for authentication to an API which works fine at this point.

As soon as we try to view properties of Client cert from Personal store, it creates copy of

• Intermediate cert in Trusted Root Certification Authorities store
• Root cert in Trusted Root Certification Authorities and Third-Party Root Certificate Authorities store

Now, when we try to access API, it gives following error

The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.
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We have to manually remove certificate from additional stores to make API work again.

1. Why does it copies root and intermediate cert to additional stores?
2. How can we configure the certificates so that API can authenticate and runs in stable manner?

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