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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)

PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Cert
oleobject loo_PubKey

li_Success = 0

loo_Cert = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Cert.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Cert")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Cert
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

// 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.
li_Success = loo_Cert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/testCert.cer")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Cert.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Cert
    return
end if

// Get the public key:
loo_PubKey = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_PubKey.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.PublicKey")

loo_Cert.GetPublicKey(loo_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".
Write-Debug "key type = " + loo_PubKey.KeyType


destroy loo_Cert
destroy loo_PubKey