X509Certificate Constructor (Byte[])

ASN.1 DER is the only certificate format supported by this class.

If you create an X509Certificate certificate by specifying a PKCS7 signed file store for data, the X509Certificate is created for the certificate that signed the store rather than for any of the certificates within the store.

The following example loads an X.509 certificate file into an X509Certificate object, exports the certificate as a byte array, and then imports the byte array into another X509Certificate object.

using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;


public class X509
{

    public static void Main()
    {

        // The path to the certificate. 
        string Certificate = "test.pfx";

        // Load the certificate into an X509Certificate object.
        X509Certificate cert = new X509Certificate(Certificate);


        byte[] certData = cert.Export(X509ContentType.Cert);

        X509Certificate newCert = new X509Certificate(certData);

        // Get the value. 
        string resultsTrue = newCert.ToString(true);

        // Display the value to the console.
        Console.WriteLine(resultsTrue);

        // Get the value. 
        string resultsFalse = newCert.ToString(false);

        // Display the value to the console.
        Console.WriteLine(resultsFalse);

    }

}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

• KeyContainerPermission 

  for permission to create a key container. Security action: Demand. Associated enumeration: KeyContainerPermissionFlags.Create

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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