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Generate X.509 certificate key pair and signing request (CSR) in C#

How do you generate a X.509 public and private key pair and a signing request (CSR file) to be sent to a CA for signing in C#?

Solution

  • Generating a RSA key-pair is easy:

    // Generate a 2048 bit RSA keypair
RSA keypair = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(2048);

    Unfortunately .NET has no support for generating certificate-requests. Your best bet is probably to interface with the COM-component CEnroll. You should use the CreatePKCS10-method.