Load Identities from PEM Text

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Demonstrates Pfx.LoadPem, which loads one or more certificate/private-key identities from PEM-formatted text and builds the contents of the Pfx object.

The file path is relative to the application's current working directory. An absolute path may also be used. Supply the path 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 pfx = CreateObject("Chilkat.Pfx")

'  The file path is relative to the application's current working directory.  An absolute path
'  may also be used.  Supply the path appropriate to your own environment.
'  Load the PEM text (certificates and private keys) into a string.
set sbPem = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
bLoaded = sbPem.LoadFile("qa_data/identity.pem")
If (bLoaded <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Failed to load the PEM file.")
    WScript.Quit
End If

pemText = sbPem.GetAsString()
If (sbPem.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sbPem.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  The password decrypts any encrypted private keys in the PEM (use an empty string if none are
'  encrypted).  A password should come from a secure source rather than being hard-coded.
password = "myPemPassword"
success = pfx.LoadPem(pemText,password)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(pfx.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Loaded " & pfx.NumPrivateKeys & " private key(s).")

outFile.Close