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X509Certificate GetCertHash SHA256

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Shows how to get the SHA256 hash of a certificate.

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llSuccess = .F.

loCert = createobject("CkCert")

// Load a certificate object with a certificate.
// The certificate object could have come from any source,
// or perhaps was obtained from another Chilkat function.
// The source does not matter.  What matters is that we have
// a cert object loaded with the certificate..
llSuccess = loCert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/cert_test123.cer")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loCert.LastErrorText
    release loCert
    return
endif

// Get the binary DER of the certificae, and compute the SHA256 hash:
loBdDer = createobject("CkBinData")
loCert.ExportCertDerBd(loBdDer)

// Get the base64 representation of the SHA256 hash.
lcCertHash = loBdDer.GetHash("sha256","base64")

? "Certificate hash in base64 = " + lcCertHash


release loCert
release loBdDer