DPAPI with User Profile

From: Kiran Kumar Pinjala (KiranKumarPinjala_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/26/04

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    Hi all,
       I am using DPAPI to encrypt and decrypt strings. Copied all the code from
    the MSDN site. Everything works fine if I do both encryption and decryption
    on one machine.

       I have posted this error before and was told to use roaming profile by
    Steve Jansen, so i did that.

       The user profile that I am using is a network user with roaming profile.

       The problem is when I encrypt a string on machine1 and try to decrypt the
    encrypted stirng on the machine2, I keep getting the error "Key not valid for
    use in the specified state"

       Can anybody help me with this?

    Thanks in advance.
    Kiran Kumar Pinjala

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