(VBScript) Iterate over Certificates in a Certificate Store

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Demonstrates how to iterate over the certificates in a certificate store.

Note: Requires Chilkat v10.1.2 or later.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.CertStore")
set certStore = CreateObject("Chilkat.CertStore")

' This opens the Current User certificate store on Windows,
' On MacOS and iOS it opens the default Keychain.
readOnly = 0
success = certStore.OpenCurrentUserStore(readOnly)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(certStore.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Cert")
set cert = CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")

numCerts = certStore.NumCertificates
i = 0

Do While i < numCerts
    ' Load the cert object with the Nth certificate.
    success = certStore.GetCert(i,cert)
    outFile.WriteLine(i & ": " & cert.SubjectCN)
    i = i + 1
Loop

outFile.Close