PKI Question

From: mm (mehulbv_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:26:07 -0400

Hello Everyone,

I am working on an application which needs to verify digitally signed MD5
Hashes sent to us over HTTPS. Our clients application is written in Java and
we are
developing our side of the application in C#. They have supplied me with
their public key in PEM format. I have two questions...

1. How do I generate a public and private key pair in PEM Format so I can
provide my client with our public key. The only way I know is to use Open
SSL to do this, can this be done through vs.net. I used the
RSACryptoServiceProvider to generate the key pair and then dumped the keys
into a text file using the ToXmlString() Method. but this gives me the
Modules, Exponent, D, P,Q, ect. values in the file. How can I convert these
into a PEM Format?

2. How do I import the public key supplied to us in PEM format into an
instance of RSACryptoServiceProvider so I can use the
RSAPKCS1SignatureFormatter class to verify the message (MD5 Hash)

Thanks in advance for all your help

-Zubin

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