Perl

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.

my $email = Chilkat2::Email->new;

# Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
my $vault = Chilkat2::XmlCertVault->new;
my $success = $vault->AddPfxFile('qa_data/certs/certs.pfx', 'pfx_password');
if (!$success) {
    print $vault->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
$success = $email->UseCertVault($vault);
if (!$success) {
    print $email->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Certificate vault attached to the email.\n";

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