How can I get certificate information? 1

[Vovin]

Hi,

can anyone help me with this? I'm trying to write some code that will retrieve the data stored within a certificate held in the certificate store.

For example. If you open Windows Explorer and click on Tools->Internet Options->Content->Certificates. If you then click on one of the certificates and view it. It contains details of what's in the certificate.

How can I get this information programmatically? I've searched about on the web and various Delphi books but haven't found anything. My boss things that the information is stored in the registry but i have searched through it and can't find anything of any use. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[buho]

The only thing I can do is point you to the API "CertXXXXX" functions. They are not imported anywhere in Delphi (5.xx), you need to import the functions you want from Wincrypt.h to work with.

Creepy stuff.

HTH.
buho (A).

 

[buho]

Mmm... take a look at:

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/chilkatCert.asp

Certificates manager freeware component. Apparently no sources provided. May be you are willing to take the risk of using a component without sources (what Im not .

buho (A).

 

[Vovin]

Hi buho,

Thanks for your help. I'm having a look at the wincrypt stuff at the moment - looks like that may be what I'm looking for.

I had a look at the chilkasoft stuff.. it looks pretty cool unfortunately it doesn't have a method that allows me to get the one property that I want (the CRL Distribution point). Isn't it always the case?

Thanks again.

 

[buho]

And:

http://cryptlib.sogot.de/DelphiSamp.html

Peter Gutman's Cryptlib library, with C/ASM source code, compiled DLL, Delphi interfacing units and Delphi demos/help.

An heroic job, apparently.

buho (A).

 

[buho]

Forget the last one. It is not what you are searching for... but a very interesting code indeed.

Sorry for the miss.
buho (A).