With Mono's implementation, it's really easy to use the RSA Crypto classes because it doesn't generate a key automatically on construction. I'm developing an application with Windows as a target, since ATM my family uses it and it currently has a large userbase.
I've tried out using CspParameters to store a private key for reuse [though I don't particularly like how that key store works, I generally prefer storing it in a location I control]. CspParams doesn't seem to offer any way to load up a public key. Unless there's a good way to work around loading public keys into a Csp I see a few options: 1) Use Mono's managed RSA encryption. However, I wonder how this compares to using the CryptoAPI for Microsoft. 2) Wrap a library like openssl for crypto. [I might just do this to help out Mono and for performance optimization]. As an aside... does .Net 2.0 do the foolish automatic construction of an RSA key? Or perhaps does it offer a constructor that would accept RSAParameters [pretty obtuse not to offer a constructor like that]. -- Thomas Harning Jr.
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