Hi All,

I am getting a valid PEM encoded cert issued by a CA and then use IE
Xenroll to install it into the browser. All these work well.
Now in between, I try to get the serial number out of the cert which
is where it fails.

1. I first convert the PEM encoded String to a byte array and then PEM
decode the byte array. Then I pass this byte array to X509Certificate
getInstance method which throws the Certificate exception saying
DerInputStream.getLength lengthTag=127 too big
Has anybody faced this problem?

2. I am pretty sure the PEM encoded certificate is alright because I
can install it on the browser after wrapping it with BEGIN CERTIFICATE
and END CERTIFICATE. Is there any other way I can programmatically get
the certificate serial number from teh PEM encoded Certificate String.

Thanks in advance for your help.
-Yash