Question about client certificates retrieval process in ASP.NET

Hi all,

I'm developing a web application (ASP.NET, VB.NET) with client
authentication based on personal certificates. My web server (IIS 5.0) is
configured correctly to perform the authentication but here it is my
problem:
To retrieve the client certificate in server I can use the traditional
method (method one) (that is calling
Request.ClientCertificate("CERTIFICATE")) or I can use the Certificate field
of HTTPClientCertificate framework class (method
two)(Request.ClientCertificate.Certificate). First method returns a String
and the second one returns an array of bytes (Byte()).
Well, I would like to know if it's possible (and, of course, how to get it)
to transform the result of the first method into the result of the second
one and vice-versa.

Thanks
Happy New Year from Spain


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