Perl

Load Default Certificate from Smart Card or Token

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Chilkat contains internal logic to examine a connected smart card or USB token, and will make decisions based on make/model to successfully interact with the hardware. When faced with a new smartcard or token, the best starting point is to call LoadFromSmartcard with an empty string argument to see what Chilkat discovers. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

# If you know the smart card PIN, it's good to set it prior to loading from the smartcard/USB token.
$cert->SmartCardPin('12345678');

# To let Chilkat discover what smartcard or token is connected, pass an empty string to LoadFromSmartcard.
# When testing in this way, it's best to have only a single smartcard or token connected to the system.
my $success = $cert->LoadFromSmartcard('');
if (!$success) {
    print $cert->LastErrorText, "\n";
    print "Certificate not loaded.\n";
    exit;
}

# The LastErrorText property on all Chilkat objects will contain
# information even when the method call is successful.
# You can examine the LastErrorText to see what Chilkat found and
# what decisions were made.
#
# For example, if a certificate was successfully loaded via LoadFromSmartcard,
# but then signing failed, such as w/ Pdf, XmlDSig, CAdES, etc.,
# then we would want to examine the LastErrorText from the call to
# LoadFromSmartcard to get detailed information about the card.
print $cert->LastErrorText, "\n";

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