Delphi ActiveX

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)

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;
cert: TChilkatCert;
pubKey: TPublicKey;

begin
success := 0;

cert := TChilkatCert.Create(Self);

// 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 = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(cert.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

// Get the public key:
pubKey := TPublicKey.Create(Self);
cert.GetPublicKey(pubKey.ControlInterface);

// 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".
Memo1.Lines.Add('key type = ' + pubKey.KeyType);
end;