Re: Crypto API

From: D. Cross [MS] (dcross@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/06/02 

From: "D. Cross [MS]" <dcross@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:42:07 -0700

You would need to store the public key or certificate of the second user in
a location that is accessible to your app. Commonly, applications now use
the Other People store for storage of user certs for the purposes of
encryption sharing when using PK base encryption 

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"Jos Scherders" <jos.scherders@spam.philips.com> wrote in message
news:3d7762a9$1$231$4d4ebb8e@read-nat.news.nl.uu.net...
> Hi,
>
> I (user X) am trying to store  encrypted data that a different user(user
Y)
> must be able to
> decrypt and I can't figure out how to do this. I think for this to work I
> need access to the
> the public key of user Y but how do I get access to that ? None of the
API's
> allow me
> to specify a user and experimenting with security descriptors also didn't
> work. Can
> anyone tell what I should be doing ?
>
> Jos.
>
>

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