Re: Error Verifying Xml Digital Signature

From: Aaron (aza_rc@yahoo.com)
Date: 08/22/02 

From: aza_rc@yahoo.com (Aaron)
Date: 22 Aug 2002 01:10:03 -0700

Found the fix after trawling through this newsgroup.

Just in case other people are looking the fix is,

CspParameters cspParam = new CspParameters();
cspParam.Flags = CspProviderFlags.UseMachineKeyStore;
RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(cspParam);

Apparently the default constructor for the RSA or DSA provider tries
to open the current users key store as part of its constructor. This
works ok on a client application but not for the non interactive
asp.net user. The above code switches the constructor to using the
machine store instead.

Thanks to the original poster.

aza_rc@yahoo.com (Aaron) wrote in message news:<2836a31b.0208210747.7a746655@posting.google.com>...
> Hello,
>
> I am getting an error when I verify an xml digital signature in a web
> service, the verification suceeds outside of the asp.net environment.
> The error reported is,
>
> "... CryptoAPI cryptographic servie provider (CSP) for this
> implementation could not be acquired. at
> System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider..ctor() ... "
>
> The code I am using is shown below. The digital signature has been
> generated and saved to file (using the SignedXml class).
>
> XmlDocument xmlSigned = new XmlDocument();
> xmlSigned.Load(SigFileName);
> SignedXml signedXml = new SignedXml();
> Error Here ==> signedXml.LoadXml((XmlElement)xmlSigned.DocumentElement)
> return ignedXml.CheckSignature();
>
> I get the same error using a DSA key instead of an RSA key. I have
> also changed the code access permissions of the assembly to full
> access in case it was a problem with permissions to unmanaged code but
> this made no difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron Clauson

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