Re: CryptAqcuireContext logn delays

From: Ryan Menezes [MSFT] (ryanmen_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:41:33 -0700

For W2K and beyond keys are maintained under the userprofile at

%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\<userSID>\* ,and
%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\DSS\<userSID>\*

Hard to tell why it would happen all of a sudden. Does this occur for local,
domain or roaming accounts ? 

-- 
Thanks,
Ryan Menezes [MS]
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"George Nentidis" <gnentid@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uvcBnt6GEHA.3068@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
> Thanx Ryan! CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT did the job.
> This means that I have a large number of persisted keys on my system?
> How can I check this out? And why did this happen so suddenly in 80% of my
> installations?
> Anyway, thanks again...
>
> "Ryan Menezes [MSFT]" <ryanmen@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:eDSAWa5GEHA.740@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Which platform are we talking about ? Do you have a large number of
> > persisted keys on your system. ?
> >
> > If you dont need access to private keys, consider using the
> > CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT flag.
> >
> > -- 
> > Thanks,
> > Ryan Menezes [MS]
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> >
> >
> > "George Nentidis" <gnentid@msn.com> wrote in message
> > news:OL0rTRxGEHA.2768@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > >
> > > Hi there All
> > >
> > > All of a sadden, my encryption and hashing routines became terribly
> slow,
> > > without changing a single line of code.
> > >
> > > After enough profiling, I found out that the CryptAcquireContect API
> call
> > >
> > > which I called in each of my routines, was considerably slow. About a
> sec.
> > > long.
> > >
> > > The same thing happened in many of applications that use this API
call.
> > >
> > > All of a sadden I hear complains of how slow it suddenly became.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Could it be that any patch or service pack has to do anything with
that?
> > >
> > > No viruses are present at the system.
> > >
> > > Anybody seen anything like that?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you all in advance
> > >
> > > George Nentidis
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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