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Find and Load Certificate by Thumbprint

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Demonstrates how to find and load a certificate by SHA1 thumbprint. This is a Microsoft Windows-only example. It assumes the certificate is already installed on the Windows system.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.83 or greater.

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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)

success = 0

' This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.83 or greater.

set cert = CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")

' The thumbprint can be passed in any encoding, such as hex, base64, etc.
' The 2nd argument indicates the encoding of the 1st argument.
success = cert.LoadByThumbprint("ea5a129c1919a52d238ee28d9f3a8f345b768388","hex")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(cert.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Found: " & cert.SubjectDN)

outFile.Close