C#

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.

C#

bool success = false;

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

Chilkat.Crypt2 crypt = new Chilkat.Crypt2();

// 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).
Chilkat.Cert cert1 = new Chilkat.Cert();
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);

Chilkat.Cert cert2 = new Chilkat.Cert();
success = cert2.LoadFromFile("qa_data/user2/cert_user2.pem");
crypt.AddEncryptCert(cert2);

Chilkat.Cert cert3 = new Chilkat.Cert();
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...
Chilkat.BinData fileData = new Chilkat.BinData();
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) {
    Debug.WriteLine(crypt.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// 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";

Debug.WriteLine("OK.");