C++

How to Parse a X.509 Certificate and Extract its Public Key

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Demonstrates how to load an X.509 certificate and extract the public key. Chilkat supports many certificate encodings:

• DER (binary) encoded certificates (.crt/.cer)
• PEM (BASE64) encoded certificates (.pem)
• Load Certificates Directly from Windows Certificate Stores
• PFX/PKCS12 (.pfx/.p12)
• Java KeyStore (.jks)
• Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard - PKCS #7 Certificates (.P7B)

C++

#include <CkCert.h>
#include <CkPublicKey.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkCert cert;

    // Load a DER (binary) encoded certificate.
    // To load from a .pem or .p7b, or any other file format that contains
    // just one certificate, call LoadFromFile in exactly the same way.
    // The LoadFromFile method automatically detects the format and loads the certificate.
    success = cert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/testCert.cer");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << cert.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    // Get the public key:
    CkPublicKey pubKey;
    cert.GetPublicKey(pubKey);

    // Examine the key type.
    // A PublicKey object can contain an RSA, ECC, or DSA public key.
    // The KeyType property will contain "rsa", "ecc", or "dsa".
    std::cout << "key type = " << pubKey.keyType() << "\r\n";
    }