Delphi ActiveX

Backup Windows Current User / Personal Certificates to a .zip

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Demonstrates how to backup the certificates in the Windows registry-based Current User certificate store (in the "Personal" Logical Store as seen in certmgr.msc), to a zip archive. Certificates having an exportable private key are exported to .pfx files. Certificates with no private key, or with a non-exportable private key, are exported to .cer files.

Obviously, this example only runs on Windows computers.

Delphi ActiveX

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Chilkat_TLB;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Integer;
certStore: TChilkatCertStore;
readOnly: Integer;
pfxPassword: WideString;
allSuccess: Integer;
numSuccess: Integer;
zip: TChilkatZip;
certData: TChilkatBinData;
sbFilename: TChilkatStringBuilder;
cert: TChilkatCert;
numCerts: Integer;
i: Integer;
bHasPrivateKey: Integer;

begin
success := 0;

certStore := TChilkatCertStore.Create(Self);

readOnly := 1;
success := certStore.OpenCurrentUserStore(readOnly);
if (not success) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(certStore.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

pfxPassword := 'secret';

allSuccess := 1;
numSuccess := 0;

zip := TChilkatZip.Create(Self);
zip.NewZip('qa_output/personalCerts.zip');

certData := TChilkatBinData.Create(Self);
sbFilename := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);

// Iterate over the certificates in the Current User store.
cert := TChilkatCert.Create(Self);
numCerts := certStore.NumCertificates;
i := 0;
while i < numCerts do
  begin
    certStore.GetCert(i,cert.ControlInterface);
    Memo1.Lines.Add('DN = ' + cert.SubjectDN);

    sbFilename.SetString('cert');
    sbFilename.AppendInt(i + 1);

    bHasPrivateKey := cert.HasPrivateKey();
    if ((bHasPrivateKey = 1) and (cert.PrivateKeyExportable = 1)) then
      begin
        // Export to a .pfx
        success := cert.ExportToPfxBd(pfxPassword,1,certData.ControlInterface);
        if (success = 1) then
          begin
            sbFilename.Append('.pfx');
            zip.AddBd(sbFilename.GetAsString(),certData.ControlInterface);
          end;
      end
    else
      begin
        // Export to a .cer
        success := cert.ExportCertDerBd(certData.ControlInterface);
        if (success = 1) then
          begin
            sbFilename.Append('.cer');
            zip.AddBd(sbFilename.GetAsString(),certData.ControlInterface);
          end;
      end;
    if (success <> 1) then
      begin
        allSuccess := 0;
      end
    else
      begin
        numSuccess := numSuccess + 1;
      end;
    i := i + 1;
  end;

if (numSuccess > 0) then
  begin
    success := zip.WriteZipAndClose();
    if (success <> 1) then
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add(zip.LastErrorText);
        allSuccess := 0;
      end;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('All success = ' + IntToStr(Ord(allSuccess)));
end;