key containers in MS are encrypted. there is a capi m/l to be found at http://discuss.microsoft.com/archives/index.html ..tom > Greetings, > > In the process of trying to work around some of the limitations > of the m$-CAPI API, I'm trying to decipher the internal representation > of private keys in the default m$ key store, in order to extract > the private key out. > > The systems I'm working on are Win2K and XP, both on NTFS. > > Google didn't give me much. Has anyone been able to figure out > the format of private key files? You can have a look at > C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/ > Crypto/RSA/*/filename > > I'm trying this because CryptAcquireContext() dies with the error > NTE_BAD_KEYSET half the time. This is supposed to indicate that the > key container doesn't exist or it could be corrupted. At this point > I'm trying to see if the files are in good shape by reading them > out. > > Having come from a Unix world, there may be something obvious I'm > missing out, so please have patience :) > > Thanks, > Sriram. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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