Node.js

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)

Node.js

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    var cert = new chilkat.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) {
        console.log(cert.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // Get the public key:
    var pubKey = new chilkat.PublicKey();
    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".
    console.log("key type = " + pubKey.KeyType);

}

chilkatExample();