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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  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.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email

#  Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
$vault = New-Object Chilkat.XmlCertVault
$success = $vault.AddPfxFile("qa_data/certs/certs.pfx","pfx_password")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($vault.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
$success = $email.UseCertVault($vault)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Certificate vault attached to the email.")

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