Java

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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Email;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.XmlCertVault;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 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 email = new Email();

        // Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
        XmlCertVault vault = new XmlCertVault();
        try {
            vault.addPfxFile("qa_data/certs/certs.pfx", "pfx_password");

            // Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
            email.useCertVault(vault);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Certificate vault attached to the email.");

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