Programming .NET Security

Name

X509Certificate

Synopsis

public class X509Certificate {
// Public Constructors
   public X509Certificate(byte[  ] data);
   public X509Certificate(IntPtr handle);
   public X509Certificate(X509Certificate cert);
// Public Static Methods
   public static X509Certificate CreateFromCertFile(string filename);
   public static X509Certificate CreateFromSignedFile(string filename);
// Public Instance Methods
   public virtual bool Equals(X509Certificate other);
   public virtual byte[  ] GetCertHash(  );
   public virtual string GetCertHashString(  );
   public virtual string GetEffectiveDateString(  );
   public virtual string GetExpirationDateString(  );
   public virtual string GetFormat(  );
   public override int GetHashCode(  );
 // overrides object
   public virtual string GetIssuerName(  );
   public virtual string GetKeyAlgorithm(  );
   public virtual byte[  ] GetKeyAlgorithmParameters(  );
   public virtual string GetKeyAlgorithmParametersString(  );
   public virtual string GetName(  );
   public virtual byte[  ] GetPublicKey(  );
   public virtual string GetPublicKeyString(  );
   public virtual byte[  ] GetRawCertData(  );
   public virtual string GetRawCertDataString(  );
   public virtual byte[  ] GetSerialNumber(  );
   public virtual string GetSerialNumberString(  );
   public override string ToString(  );
 // overrides object
   public virtual string ToString(bool fVerbose);
}

The X509Certificate class represents an X509 v3 digital certificate. Instances of this class are created using the static CreateFromCertFile( ) and CreateFromSignedFile( ) methods, which ...