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ScMinidriver - Import a Certificate and Private Key to a Smart Card or USB Token

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Demonstrates how to import a certificate and its private key to a key container on a smart card or USB token.

Note: This functionality was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

Note: The ScMinidriver functionality is for Windows-only because ScMinidriver DLLs only exist on Windows.

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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Cert;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ScMinidriver;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        ScMinidriver scmd = new ScMinidriver();

        // Reader names (smart card readers or USB tokens) can be discovered
        // via List Readers or Find Smart Cards
        String readerName = "SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR33x USB Smart Card Reader 0";
        try {
            scmd.acquireContext(readerName);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // If successful, the name of the currently inserted smart card is available:
        System.out.println("Card name: " + scmd.getCardName());

        // To import a cert + private key, we'll need to be PIN authenticated.
        // For more details about smart card PIN authentication, see the Smart Card PIN Authentication Example
        String pinId = "user";
        int retval = scmd.pinAuthenticate(pinId, "000000");
        if (retval != 0) {
            System.out.println("PIN Authentication failed.");
            scmd.deleteContext();
            return;
        }

        Cert cert = new Cert();

        // Load the cert + private key from a .p12/.pfx
        // We got this .p12 from https://badssl.com/download/
        String password = "badssl.com";
        try {
            cert.loadPfxFile("qa_data/pfx/badssl.com-client.p12", password);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            scmd.deleteContext();
            return;
        }

        // Let's import this certificate as the "signature" key/cert in key container #6.
        int containerIndex = 6;
        String keySpec = "sig";
        try {
            scmd.importCert(cert, containerIndex, keySpec, pinId);
            System.out.println("Successfully imported the cert + private key onto the smart card.");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
        }

        // When finished with operations that required authentication, you may if you wish, deauthenticate the session.
        try {
            scmd.pinDeauthenticate("user");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
        }

        // Delete the context when finished with the card.
        try {
            scmd.deleteContext();
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
        }
    }
}