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Find and Load Certificate by Thumbprint

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Demonstrates how to find and load a certificate by SHA1 thumbprint. This is a Microsoft Windows-only example. It assumes the certificate is already installed on the Windows system.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

# The thumbprint can be passed in any encoding, such as hex, base64, etc.
# The 2nd argument indicates the encoding of the 1st argument.
my $success = $cert->LoadByThumbprint('ea5a129c1919a52d238ee28d9f3a8f345b768388', 'hex');
if (!$success) {
    print $cert->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Found: ', $cert->SubjectDN, "\n";