Re: Enumerating KeyContainers in C#
From: Michel Gallant (neutron_at_NOSPAMistar.ca)
Date: 04/06/04
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:55:30 -0400
There is also the more comprehensive .NET utility "KeyPal" with source code here:
http://www.jensign.com/JavaScience/dotnet/keypal
Cheers,
- MIAG
""Shawn Farkas"" <shawnfa@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Dirk,
>
> Unfortunately there's no way to do that built into the framework. However, you can P/Invoke to
CAPI and accomplish this task. The
> function you're looking for is CryptGetProvParam(), (MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> us/security/security/cryptgetprovparam.asp). You'll want to pass in a query parameter of
PP_ENUMCONTAINERS.
> Mich Gallant has written a sample bit of code that does exactly what you're looking for, and
published it on MSDN:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncapi/html/netcryptoapi.asp
>
> Scroll down to the section entitled ".NET and CryptoAPI via P/Invoke: Part 2" for the code that's
relavent to your problem.
>
> -Shawn
> http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa
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> >From: "D. Janknecht" <fda@dfsdasd.com>
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> >Hello,
> >
> >i use the following code to access a keycontainer on the local machine:
> >
> >CspParameters parms = new CspParameters(1); // PROV_RSA_FULLparms.Flags =
> >CspProviderFlags.UseMachineKeyStore; // Use Machine store
> >parms.KeyContainerName MyContainerName; // Name of the key-container
> >parms.KeyNumber = 2; // AT_SIGNATURE
> >RSACryptoServiceProvider csp = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(parms);
> >
> >This works fine as long as i pass the value of an existing key container in
> >the "MyContainerName" string . By passing a non-exisiting container name, a
> >new key is generated but no error occurs.
> >So my tought was it to enumerate all key containers and test if the given
> >name exists, but how can i do this?
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Dirk
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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