Visual Basic 6.0

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.

Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim certStore As New ChilkatCertStore

' This opens the Current User certificate store on Windows,
' On MacOS and iOS it opens the default Keychain.
Dim readOnly As Long
readOnly = 0
success = certStore.OpenCurrentUserStore(readOnly)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print certStore.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Find the certificate having a Subject CN = "Example ABC".
Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("CN","Example ABC")

Dim cert As New ChilkatCert
success = certStore.FindCert(json,cert)
If (success = 1) Then
    ' Show the full distinguished name of the certificate.
    Debug.Print "Found: " & cert.SubjectDN
Else
    Debug.Print "Not found."
End If