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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?bGFtanRtZQ==?= on December 22, 2007, 1:48 pm
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I've reposted issue to platformsdk.security. Disregard post, that is unless
you absolutely, positively, know the answer! Thanks, sorry for the noise.
"lamjtme" wrote:
> I want to encrypt ciphertext with a public key and decrypt it with a private
> key. The performance impact is acceptable since I'm dealing with a very
> small payload.
>
> I have a curious problem using CryptDecrypt (w/ a public key) against a byte
> blob previously encoded with CryptEncrypt (w/ a private key). The key pair
> I'm using comes from a call to CryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey against a
> certificate store. I can hex dump the private/public keys so I know they're
> present in the key handle. I keep getting a NTE_BAD_KEY error. I notice the
> ALG_ID on the key pair is AT_SIGNATURE. I tried force the type to CALG_KEYX
> to get it to be AT_KEYEXCHANGE but I get "invalid type error".
>
> Am I hitting an international limitation in the software or do you think i
> have a defect in my code???
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