Classic ASP

Specify a Certificate for Encrypted Email

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.AddEncryptCert method, which explicitly specifies a certificate to use when sending encrypted email. Call it once per recipient certificate; ClearEncryptCerts clears the list. This example loads a recipient certificate, registers it, and enables encrypted sending.

Background: When encrypting to multiple people, each recipient needs to be able to decrypt with their own private key. S/MIME handles this by encrypting the message's one-time content key separately under each recipient's public certificate and including all of those wrapped keys in the message. AddEncryptCert is how you build that recipient list — one call per certificate — giving explicit control over exactly whose certificates are used rather than relying on automatic lookup.

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<%
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the AddEncryptCert method, which explicitly specifies a certificate for
'  sending encrypted email.  Call it once per recipient certificate.  Use ClearEncryptCerts
'  to clear the list.

set email = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Encrypted email"
email.Body = "Encrypted to the specified recipient certificate(s)."
email.From = "alice@example.com"
success = email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")

'  Load a recipient certificate (public key) and add it to the encryption cert list.
set cert = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")
success = cert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/certs/recipient.cer")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( cert.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

success = email.AddEncryptCert(cert)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( email.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Request encrypted sending.
email.SendEncrypted = 1

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Added the recipient's encryption certificate.") & "</pre>"

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

%>
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