JavaScript

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.

Note

This example is intended for running within a Chilkat.Js embedded JavaScript engine. All Chilkat JavaScript examples require Chilkat v11.4.0 or greater.

JavaScript

var 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.

var email = new CkEmail();

//  Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
var vault = new CkXmlCertVault();
success = vault.AddPfxFile("qa_data/certs/certs.pfx","pfx_password");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(vault.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

//  Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
success = email.UseCertVault(vault);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(email.LastErrorText);
    return true;
}

console.log("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.