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Verify Opaque Signature and Retrieve Signing Certificates

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Demonstrates how to verify a PCKS7 opaque digital signature (signed data), extract the original file/data, and then extract the certificate(s) that were used to sign. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

// Verify a PKCS7 signed-data (opaque signature) file and extract the original content to a file.
success = crypt.VerifyP7M("qa_data/p7m/opaqueSig.p7","qa_output/originalData.dat")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(crypt.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Alternatively, we can do it in memory...
Dim binData As New Chilkat.BinData
success = binData.LoadFile("qa_data/p7m/opaqueSig.p7")
// Your app should check for success, but we'll skip the check for brevity..

// If verified, the signature is unwrapped and binData is replaced with the original data that was signed.
success = crypt.OpaqueVerifyBd(binData)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(crypt.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// For our testing, we signed some text, so we can get it from the binData..
System.DebugLog("Original Data:")
System.DebugLog(binData.GetString("utf-8"))

// After any method call that verifies a signature, the crypt object will contain the certificate(s)
// that were used for signing (assuming the X.509 certs were available in the signature, which is typically the case).

// Get each signing certificate, and build the certificate chain for each.
Dim cert As New Chilkat.Cert
Dim certChain As New Chilkat.CertChain
Dim numCerts As Int32
numCerts = crypt.NumSignerCerts
Dim i As Int32
i = 0
While i < numCerts
    success = crypt.LastSignerCert(i,cert)
    System.DebugLog(cert.SubjectDN)

    success = cert.BuildCertChain(certChain)
    If (success = False) Then
        System.DebugLog(cert.LastErrorText)
        Return
    End If

    i = i + 1
Wend