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Provide a Certificate Vault to an Email

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 <CkEmail.h>
#include <CkXmlCertVault.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool 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.

    CkEmail email;

    //  Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
    CkXmlCertVault vault;
    success = vault.AddPfxFile("qa_data/certs/certs.pfx","pfx_password");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << vault.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return true;
    }

    //  Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
    success = email.UseCertVault(vault);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << email.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return true;
    }

    std::cout << "Certificate vault attached to the email." << "\r\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.
    }