Delphi DLL Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Backup Windows Current User / Personal Certificates to a .zip

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Demonstrates how to backup the certificates in the Windows registry-based Current User certificate store (in the "Personal" Logical Store as seen in certmgr.msc), to a zip archive. Certificates having an exportable private key are exported to .pfx files. Certificates with no private key, or with a non-exportable private key, are exported to .cer files.

Obviously, this example only runs on Windows computers.

Delphi DLL

var
success: Boolean;
certStore: HCkCertStore;
readOnly: Boolean;
pfxPassword: PWideChar;
allSuccess: Boolean;
numSuccess: Integer;
zip: HCkZip;
certData: HCkBinData;
sbFilename: HCkStringBuilder;
cert: HCkCert;
numCerts: Integer;
i: Integer;
bHasPrivateKey: Boolean;

begin
success := False;

certStore := CkCertStore_Create();

readOnly := True;
success := CkCertStore_OpenCurrentUserStore(certStore,readOnly);
if (not success) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkCertStore__lastErrorText(certStore));
    Exit;
  end;

pfxPassword := 'secret';

allSuccess := True;
numSuccess := 0;

zip := CkZip_Create();
CkZip_NewZip(zip,'qa_output/personalCerts.zip');

certData := CkBinData_Create();
sbFilename := CkStringBuilder_Create();

//  Iterate over the certificates in the Current User store.
cert := CkCert_Create();
numCerts := CkCertStore_getNumCertificates(certStore);
i := 0;
while i < numCerts do
  begin
    CkCertStore_GetCert(certStore,i,cert);
    Memo1.Lines.Add('DN = ' + CkCert__subjectDN(cert));

    CkStringBuilder_SetString(sbFilename,'cert');
    CkStringBuilder_AppendInt(sbFilename,i + 1);

    bHasPrivateKey := CkCert_HasPrivateKey(cert);
    if ((bHasPrivateKey = True) and (CkCert_getPrivateKeyExportable(cert) = True)) then
      begin
        //  Export to a .pfx
        success := CkCert_ExportToPfxBd(cert,pfxPassword,True,certData);
        if (success = True) then
          begin
            CkStringBuilder_Append(sbFilename,'.pfx');
            CkZip_AddBd(zip,CkStringBuilder__getAsString(sbFilename),certData);
          end;
      end
    else
      begin
        //  Export to a .cer
        success := CkCert_ExportCertDerBd(cert,certData);
        if (success = True) then
          begin
            CkStringBuilder_Append(sbFilename,'.cer');
            CkZip_AddBd(zip,CkStringBuilder__getAsString(sbFilename),certData);
          end;
      end;
    if (success <> True) then
      begin
        allSuccess := False;
      end
    else
      begin
        numSuccess := numSuccess + 1;
      end;
    i := i + 1;
  end;

if (numSuccess > 0) then
  begin
    success := CkZip_WriteZipAndClose(zip);
    if (success <> True) then
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add(CkZip__lastErrorText(zip));
        allSuccess := False;
      end;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('All success = ' + IntToStr(Ord(allSuccess)));

CkCertStore_Dispose(certStore);
CkZip_Dispose(zip);
CkBinData_Dispose(certData);
CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbFilename);
CkCert_Dispose(cert);