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Iterate over Certificates on Connected Smart Cards and USB Tokens

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Demonstrates how to iterate over the certificates on connected smart cards and USB tokens.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $certStore = Chilkat2::CertStore->new;

# Detects connected smart cards and USB tokens
# and loads the certificate store object with the certificates found.
# Works on Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Linux.
# Note: If something is not detected, contact info@chilkatsoft.com
# for help or for workarounds.
my $argNotUsed = '';
my $success = $certStore->OpenSmartcard($argNotUsed);
if (!$success) {
    print $certStore->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

my $cert = Chilkat2::Cert->new;

my $numCerts = $certStore->NumCertificates;
my $i = 0;

while ($i < $numCerts) {
    # Load the cert object with the Nth certificate found in the connected HSMs
    $certStore->GetCert($i, $cert);
    print $i, ': ', $cert->SubjectCN, "\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
}