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Provide a Certificate Vault to an Email

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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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Dim success As Boolean
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.

Dim email As New Chilkat.Email

//  Build a certificate vault from a PFX (certificate + private key).
Dim vault As New Chilkat.XmlCertVault
success = vault.AddPfxFile("qa_data/certs/certs.pfx","pfx_password")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(vault.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Make the vault available to the email object for crypto operations.
success = email.UseCertVault(vault)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(email.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("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.