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X509Certificate.GetPublicKey Method

.NET Framework 4

Other Versions

Returns the public key for the X.509v3 certificate.

Namespace: System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

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public virtual byte[] GetPublicKey()

Return Value

Type: System.Byte[]
The public key for the X.509 certificate as an array of bytes.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
CryptographicException	The certificate context is invalid.

Examples

The following example uses the GetPublicKey method to return a certificate's public key as an array of bytes and displays it to the console.

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


public class X509
{

    public static void Main()
    {

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

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

        // Get the value.
        byte[] results = cert.GetPublicKey();

        // Display the value to the console.
        foreach(byte b in results)
        {
            Console.Write(b);
        }

    }

}

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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

Reference

X509Certificate Class

System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates Namespace

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