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Export a Private Key as DER into a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat PrivateKey.GetPkcsBd method, which exports the key as DER into a BinData. The first argument selects PKCS #1 (true) versus PKCS #8 (false), the second is the password (empty for unencrypted), and the third is the BinData that receives the bytes.

Note: The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background: This is the in-memory binary export — the raw DER bytes land in a BinData ready to hash, encrypt, or hand to another API without a temporary file. One method covers several cases: the boolean picks the traditional (PKCS #1) versus modern (PKCS #8) structure, and a nonempty password produces an encrypted PKCS #8 export (with the cipher from Pkcs8EncryptAlg). Source any password securely.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\PrivateKey;

// Load a private key to export.
$privKey = new PrivateKey();
try {
    $privKey->LoadPemFile('qa_data/private.pem');

    // The key password is not hard-coded in a real application; obtain it from an interactive
    // prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    $password = 'myKeyPassword';

    // Export the key as DER into a BinData.  The 1st argument selects PKCS #1 (true) versus PKCS #8
    // (false); the 2nd is the password (empty string for an unencrypted export); the 3rd is the
    // BinData that receives the DER bytes.
    $usePkcs1 = false;
    $bd = new BinData();
    $privKey->GetPkcsBd($usePkcs1, $password, $bd);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo 'Exported ', $bd->NumBytes, " DER bytes.\n";