GetCertificateProperty

The GetCertificateProperty method returns a named property from a certificate.

[VB] VARIANT GetCertificateProperty(
  BSTR strPropertyName,  
  long PropertyType      
);
 
[JAVA] com.ms.Variant GetCertificateProperty(
  java.lang.String strPropertyName,  
  int    PropertyType                
);
 
[C++] HRESULT GetCertificateProperty(
  BSTR const strPropertyName,  // in
  LONG PropertyType,           // in
  VARIANT * pvarPropertyValue  // out, return value
);

Parameters

[VB][JAVA][C++] strPropertyName: Specifies the named property to retrieve. There are a stock set of certificate properties that are always valid, referred to as the Name Properties. Other properties valid for certificates include the Certifcate Properties listed below.Name Properties
These properties can refer to the subject name or the issuer name by prepending Subject or Issuer to the property. For example, Subject.OrgUnit would refer to the subject's organizational unit.

Note Only Subject name properties are supported in this release (do not prepend Issuer to a property name.)

Property Name	Data Type	Description
DistinguishedName	String	Full X.400 DN Name
RawName	Binary	ASN.1 Encoded DN
Country	String	X.500 2-character country code (for example US for United States or CA for Canada)
Organization	String	Legal name of organization
OrgUnit	String	Name of sub-organization or department
CommonName	String	Fully qualified hostname/path used in DNS (Domain Name System) lookups (for example, host.company.com)
StreetAddress	String	Street address or PO Box
Locality	String	Name of city
State	String	Full name of state or province (for example, California)
Title	String	Title of individual who requested the certificate (optional)
GivenName	String	First name of individual
Initials	String	Initials of individual (optional)
Surname	String	Last name of individual
DomainComponent	String	Component of a DNS (Domain Name System) name
E-Mail	String	E-mail address

All of the above properties except DistinguishedName, RawName, and Country support multi-valued syntax using an ANSI punctuation character as the separator, which by default must be a comma. The separator character is specified by the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\Services\CertSVC\Configuration\<CA Name>\SubjectNameSeparator (REG_SZ) entry in the system registry. This entry is set to a single character string containing a comma, by default. The first character of this string must be an ANSI punctation character to enable the multi-valued syntax. If some other character appears first, or if the registry entry is empty or missing, then multi-valued syntax is disabled.

Certificate Properties

The following properties are unique to certificates and can be read by ICertServerExit::GetCertificateProperty.

Property Name	Data Type	Description
RequestID	Signed long	Internal request ID
RawCertificate	Binary	Raw certificate bytes
SerialNumber	String	Certificate serial number
NotBefore	Date / Time	Certificate start validity date
NotAfter	Date / Time	Certificate expiration date
RawPublicKey	Binary	Subject key
PublicKeyAlgorithm	String	Subject key algorithm Object ID (OID)
RawPublicKeyAlgorithmParameters	Binary	Subject key algorithm parameters

[VB][JAVA][C++] propertyType

Specifies the property type. The type can be one of the following.

Type Specifier	Data Type
PROPTYPE_LONG	Signed long data
PROPTYPE_DATE	Date / Time
PROPTYPE_BINARY	Binary data
PROPTYPE_STRING	String data

[C++] pvarPropertyValue

Points to the return value. See Return Value.

Return Values

Returns the requested property value.