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Load Certificate from .cer and Private Key from .pem

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Load a certificate from a .cer and its associated private key from a .pem.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

cert = Chilkat::CkCert.new()
success = cert.LoadFromFile("C:/certs_and_keys/Certificate.cer")
if (success == false)
    print cert.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

sbPem = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = sbPem.LoadFile("C:/certs_and_keys/PrivateKey.pem","utf-8")
if (success == false)
    print "Failed to load private key PEM" + "\n";
    exit
end

success = cert.SetPrivateKeyPem(sbPem.getAsString())
if (success == false)
    print cert.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "The certificate and associated private key are now loaded and ready for signing." + "\n";