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Encrypt a file to a PKCS7 encrypted message using multiple certificates from different users

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Demonstrates how to encrypt a file to a PKCS7 encrypted message using multiple certificates from different users. Any one of the users can decrypt using his/her own certificate + private key.

Note: When doing public key encryption, it is the public key that is used to encrypt. The private key is required for decryption.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim crypt As ChilkatCrypt2
crypt.Initialize("crypt")

'  Tell the crypt object to use 3 certificates.
'  Do this by calling AddEncryptCert for each certificate.

'  Load a digital certificate. 
'  We don't need the private key for encryption.
'  Only the public key is needed (which is included in a certificate).
Dim cert1 As ChilkatCert
cert1.Initialize("cert1")
success = cert1.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user1/cert_user1.pem")
'  Assume success for the example, but make sure your application checks for success/failure...
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert1)

Dim cert2 As ChilkatCert
cert2.Initialize("cert2")
success = cert2.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user2/cert_user2.pem")
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert2)

Dim cert3 As ChilkatCert
cert3.Initialize("cert3")
success = cert3.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user3/cert_user3.pem")
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert3)

'  Indicate that we want PKI encryption (i.e. public-key infrastructure)
'  to produce a CMS message (Cryptographic Message Syntax/PKCS7),
'  that is be created with RSAES-OAEP padding, SHA256, and AES-128 for the
'  bulk encryption.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "pki"
crypt.Pkcs7CryptAlg = "aes"
crypt.KeyLength = 128
crypt.OaepHash = "sha256"
crypt.OaepPadding = True

'  Load the file to be encrypted...
Dim fileData As ChilkatBinData
fileData.Initialize
success = fileData.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/penguins.jpg")
'  Your app should check for success/failure..

'  Encrypt the data.  The contents of the fileData object are replaced with the PKCS7 encrypted message.
success = crypt.EncryptBd(fileData)
If success <> True Then
    Log(crypt.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Save the PKCS7 encrypted message to a file..
success = fileData.WriteFile("qa_output/pkcs7_encrypted.p7")

'  Now indicate that the PKCS7 output is to be returned in the base64 encoding.
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"

Log("OK.")