Win2K CryptAPI : Way to encrypt w/ Pvt and decrypt w/ Pub key ?

From: Chris Kushnir (ckushni1_at_san.rr.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 08:35:28 GMT

I've recently started in with the Windows CryptAPI.

I've gotten the impression that the API is set up to always encrypt with the
public key and decrypt with the private (when using exchange or signature
keys) - is this correct ?

I would like my server to be able to broadcast small messages to connected
clients. I was hoping to have the server encrypt the message with it's
private exchange key so the clients could decrypt with the servers public
exchange key to verify the message source as being the server.

If the API will only encrypt with the public key what is considered best
practice to achieve the results i want ?

thank-you,
...cmk

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