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ScMinidriver - Import a Certificate and Private Key to a Smart Card or USB Token

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Demonstrates how to import a certificate and its private key to a key container on a smart card or USB token.

Note: This functionality was introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

Note: The ScMinidriver functionality is for Windows-only because ScMinidriver DLLs only exist on Windows.

Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Cert;
use Chilkat2\ScMinidriver;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$scmd = new ScMinidriver();

// Reader names (smart card readers or USB tokens) can be discovered
// via List Readers or Find Smart Cards
$readerName = 'SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR33x USB Smart Card Reader 0';
try {
    $scmd->AcquireContext($readerName);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// If successful, the name of the currently inserted smart card is available:
echo 'Card name: ', $scmd->CardName, "\n";

// To import a cert + private key, we'll need to be PIN authenticated.
// For more details about smart card PIN authentication, see the Smart Card PIN Authentication Example
$pinId = 'user';
$retval = $scmd->PinAuthenticate($pinId, '000000');
if ($retval != 0) {
    echo "PIN Authentication failed.\n";
    $scmd->DeleteContext();
    exit;
}

$cert = new Cert();

// Load the cert + private key from a .p12/.pfx
// We got this .p12 from https://badssl.com/download/
$password = 'badssl.com';
try {
    $cert->LoadPfxFile('qa_data/pfx/badssl.com-client.p12', $password);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    $scmd->DeleteContext();
    exit;
}

// Let's import this certificate as the "signature" key/cert in key container #6.
$containerIndex = 6;
$keySpec = 'sig';
try {
    $scmd->ImportCert($cert, $containerIndex, $keySpec, $pinId);
    echo "Successfully imported the cert + private key onto the smart card.\n";
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
}

// When finished with operations that required authentication, you may if you wish, deauthenticate the session.
try {
    $scmd->PinDeauthenticate('user');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
}

// Delete the context when finished with the card.
try {
    $scmd->DeleteContext();
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
}