Create an Opaque Signature with a Separate Private Key

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.ConvertToSignedPk method, which creates an opaque signature using a signer certificate and its separately supplied private key. The first argument is the Cert and the second is the PrivateKey.

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.

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set mime = CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")
success = mime.SetBodyFromPlainText("This message will be signed.")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Load the certificate and its private key separately.
set cert = CreateObject("Chilkat.Cert")
success = cert.LoadFromFile("qa_data/signer.cer")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(cert.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

set privKey = CreateObject("Chilkat.PrivateKey")
success = privKey.LoadPemFile("qa_data/signer_privkey.pem")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(privKey.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  Create an opaque signature when the certificate and private key are supplied separately.  The
'  1st argument is the signer certificate and the 2nd is its private key.
success = mime.ConvertToSignedPk(cert,privKey)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = mime.SaveMime("qa_output/signed_opaque.eml")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Message converted to an opaque signed message.")

outFile.Close