Provide a Certificate Vault to an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.UseCertVault method, which adds an XML certificate vault to the email's internal certificate and private-key lookup sources for encryption, decryption, signing, and verification. This example builds a vault from a PFX and attaches it to the email.

Background: A certificate vault is a portable, in-memory store of certificates and private keys. Instead of wiring up each certificate individually for every operation, you load your credentials into one XmlCertVault and hand it to the email; Chilkat then draws on it automatically whenever it needs a key — to decrypt an incoming message, sign an outgoing one, or verify a signature. This is especially convenient on platforms without an OS certificate store.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>
#include <C_CkXmlCertVault.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail email;
    HCkXmlCertVault vault;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the UseCertVault method, which adds an XML certificate vault to the email's
    //  internal certificate and private-key lookup sources for encryption, decryption, signing,
    //  and verification.

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    //  Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
    vault = CkXmlCertVault_Create();
    success = CkXmlCertVault_AddPfxFile(vault,"qa_data/certs/certs.pfx","pfx_password");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkXmlCertVault_lastErrorText(vault));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        CkXmlCertVault_Dispose(vault);
        return;
    }

    //  Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
    success = CkEmail_UseCertVault(email,vault);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkEmail_lastErrorText(email));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        CkXmlCertVault_Dispose(vault);
        return;
    }

    printf("Certificate vault attached to the email.\n");

    //  Note: The path "qa_data/certs/certs.pfx" is a relative local filesystem path,
    //  relative to the current working directory of the running application.


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);
    CkXmlCertVault_Dispose(vault);

    }