Cryptographic Service Provider problem

From: Sky Fly (nobody_at_blackhole.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:52:47 -0000

Hi,

I use an RSACryptoServiceProvider object in an app to
encrypt data that I'm sending to another machine.
Recently when I was using the app, the power supply
to the computer was interrupted. When the machine
was powered back up, I found from then on that every
time I tried to instantiate the RSACryptoServiceProvider
in my code, I kept on getting the dreaded message:

"Re: CryptoAPI cryptographic service provider (CSP) for
this implementation could not be acquired"

This isn't a problem with not using the machine key store -
I do this, and besides, this isn't an ASP. I'm wondering
whether there are some files that the RSACryptoServiceProvider
uses to do the encryption that may have been corrupted.
Can any one confirm this, and let me know which files
I may need to restore, or indeed if there is any other
possible cause of this problem?

TIA, 

--
Akin
aknak at aksoto dot idps dot co dot uk

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