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Load a Certificate from the Windows Certificate Store

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Demonstrates how to load a certificate that has been pre-installed in the registry-based Windows certificate store. This is generally how one would load a certificate that is stored on a smart card or usb token.

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

$success = $false

$cert = New-Object Chilkat.Cert

$success = $cert.LoadByCommonName("PIVKey 7ED53EC611D3F84396212C5842BB563F")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($cert.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Loaded: " + $cert.SubjectDN)