Re: Win98 and WinXP incompatibilities

From: John Banes [MS] (jbanes_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:39:27 -0800

As I recall, the Microsoft CSPs didn't start supporting RSA encryption via
the CryptEncrypt function until WinXP. This was due to the government
regulations that were in place at the time that Win9x and Win2K were
created.

Regards,
John Banes
[Microsoft Security Developer]

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"George Nentidis" <gnentid@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there.
> I am trying to generate and export a public key and then import it and use
> it for encryption.
> The key is generated on WinXP. The whole procedure works fine for WinXP.
> Under Win98, the key is imported just fine, I get a key handle.
> But CryptEncrypt returns a bad key error. In WinXP works just fine though.
> Are there any known incompatibilities between WinXP and Win98?
> I use the Basic Cryptographic Provider which is available in all versions.
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> Any ideas?
> Thank you all in adance.
>
> George Nentidis
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