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Find Certificate by Subject CN (Common Name)

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Demonstrates how to find a certificate having the specified subject CN.

Note: Requires Chilkat v10.1.2 or later.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$certStore = New-Object Chilkat.CertStore

# This opens the Current User certificate store on Windows,
# On MacOS and iOS it opens the default Keychain.
$readOnly = $false
$success = $certStore.OpenCurrentUserStore($readOnly)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($certStore.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Find the certificate having a Subject CN = "Example ABC".
$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.UpdateString("CN","Example ABC")

$cert = New-Object Chilkat.Cert
$success = $certStore.FindCert($json,$cert)
if ($success -eq $true) {
    # Show the full distinguished name of the certificate.
    $("Found: " + $cert.SubjectDN)
}
else {
    $("Not found.")
}