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Export a Public Key as PEM

Demonstrates the Chilkat PublicKey.GetPem method, which returns the public key in PEM format. The only argument selects the underlying DER representation: true prefers the traditional PKCS #1 form (RSA), false uses the SubjectPublicKeyInfo form.

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.

Background: PEM is the most portable way to share a public key — the Base64 text block most tooling reads. The boolean picks the encoding: false produces the modern, algorithm-independent PUBLIC KEY (SubjectPublicKeyInfo), which is the usual choice; true produces the older RSA-specific RSA PUBLIC KEY for tools that require it. A public key is not sensitive, so the PEM can be distributed openly.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

//  Load a public key to export.  LoadFromFile inspects the content, so it accepts DER, PEM, XML,
//  JWK, and other supported representations.
Dim pubKey As New Chilkat.PublicKey
success = pubKey.LoadFromFile("qa_data/public.pem")
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(pubKey.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

//  Export the public key in PEM format.  The argument selects the underlying DER representation:
//  1 prefers the traditional PKCS #1 form (RSA), 0 uses the SubjectPublicKeyInfo form.
Dim preferPkcs1 As Boolean
preferPkcs1 = False
Dim pem As String
pem = pubKey.GetPem(preferPkcs1)
If (pubKey.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(pubKey.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog(pem)