Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get Certificates from .p12 / .pfx

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A PKCS12 (.p12 / .pfx) is a container for holding a certificate, its private key, and the certs in the chain of authentication up to and possibly including the root CA cert. A .p12 is not required to contain certain things. It will contain whatever the creator of the .p12 decided to include. It's possible to contain just a private key, just a cert, many certs without private keys, or many certs with many private keys. Usually, a .p12 contains one certificate, its associated private key, and certificates in the chain of authentication. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $pfx = Chilkat2::Pfx->new;

my $success = $pfx->LoadPfxFile('qa_data/pfx/test.pfx', 'pfx_password');
if (!$success) {
    print $pfx->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Iterate over the certs contained in the PFX
my $cert = Chilkat2::Cert->new;
my $numCerts = $pfx->NumCerts;
my $i = 0;
while ($i < $numCerts) {
    $pfx->CertAt($i, $cert);

    print '--- ', $i, " ---\n";
    print $cert->SubjectDN, "\n";
    # Is this a root cert, or self-signed?
    print 'Root: ', ($cert->IsRoot ? 1 : 0), "\n";
    print 'Self-Signed: ', ($cert->SelfSigned ? 1 : 0), "\n";

    # If this certificate is not the root (self-signed), then get the issuer.
    # If the issuing certificate is contained in the PFX, then it will be found here..
    if (!$cert->SelfSigned) {
        my $issuer = $cert->FindIssuer();
        if (!$cert->LastMethodSuccess) {
            print "Issuer not found.\n";
        } else {
            print 'Issuer: ', $issuer->SubjectDN, "\n";
        }
    }

    $i = $i + 1;
}

# Usually, the user certificate is at index 0, its issuer is at index 1, etc. until we get to the root certificate.