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Get Certificates within XML Signature

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Demonstrates how to get the certificates contained within an XML signature.

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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 the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set sbXml = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

' Load XML containing one or more signatures.
success = sbXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml_dsig_valid_samples/multipleSigners/sp.pdf.XAdES.xml","utf-8")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Failed to load the XML file..")
    WScript.Quit
End If

set dsig = CreateObject("Chilkat.XmlDSig")

' First load the XML containing the signatures to be verified.
' Note that this particular Signature already contains the RSA public key that will be used
' for verification.
success = dsig.LoadSignatureSb(sbXml)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(dsig.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' For each signature, verify and also get the certificate(s) contained within each Signature.
i = 0
set saCerts = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringArray")
set cert = CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")

outFile.WriteLine("numSignatures = " & dsig.NumSignatures)

Do While i < dsig.NumSignatures
    ' Select the Nth signature by setting the Selector property.
    dsig.Selector = i

    bVerifyReferenceDigests = 1
    bVerified = dsig.VerifySignature(bVerifyReferenceDigests)
    outFile.WriteLine("Signature " & (i + 1) & " verified = " & bVerified)

    ' Get the certificates embedded in this signature.
    saCerts.Clear 
    success = dsig.GetCerts(saCerts)
    If (success = 1) Then
        j = 0
        Do While j < saCerts.Count
            success = cert.LoadFromBase64(saCerts.GetString(j))
            If (success = 1) Then
                outFile.WriteLine("    " & cert.SubjectDN)
            End If

            j = j + 1
        Loop
    End If

    i = i + 1
Loop

outFile.Close