Export All Certificates to .cer Files

Demonstrates how to export all certificates from a registry-based certificate store to .cer files where each filename is the serial number.

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import chilkat


ccs = chilkat.CkCreateCS()
ccs.put_ReadOnly(True)

#  Open the current-user certificate store:

# cs is a CkCertStore
cs = ccs.OpenCurrentUserStore()

if (not (cs == None )):

    numCerts = cs.get_NumCertificates()

    #  Print the distinguished name of each certificate
    for i in range(0,numCerts):
        # cert is a CkCert
        cert = cs.GetCertificate(i)

        filename = "certs/" + cert.serialNumber() + ".cer"

        cert.ExportCertDerFile(filename)

else:
    print ccs.lastErrorText()