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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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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

cert = chilkat.CkCert()

success = cert.LoadByCommonName("PIVKey 7ED53EC611D3F84396212C5842BB563F")
if (success != True):
    print(cert.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

print("Loaded: " + cert.subjectDN())