(Ruby) Get a Certificate's Key Size

Demonstrates how to get the RSA key size of a certificate (for example, 1024-bit, 2048-bit, etc.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

# For this example, I have a certificate in raw base64 format (not PEM),
# that looks like this:  "MIIGkDCCBHigAwIBAgIUMDA ... s/iqLsLA=="
sbCertBase64 = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = sbCertBase64.LoadFile("qa_data/certs/base64Cert.txt","utf-8")

cert = Chilkat::CkCert.new()
success = cert.LoadFromBase64(sbCertBase64.getAsString())
if (success == false)
    print cert.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Get the public key.
pubKey = Chilkat::CkPublicKey.new()
cert.GetPublicKey(pubKey)

numBits = pubKey.get_KeySize()
print "Number of bits = " + numBits.to_s() + "\n";

# If using an older version of Chilkat, the key size can be obtained like this:
xml = Chilkat::CkXml.new()
xml.LoadXml(pubKey.getXml())

binDat = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
binDat.AppendEncoded(xml.getChildContent("Modulus"),"base64")

numBits = 8 * binDat.get_NumBytes()
print "Number of bits = " + numBits.to_s() + "\n";