I have a random private key ("C:\tmp\private.key"
):
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
I tried to use the RSACryptoServiceProvider.ImportCspBlob
to import it but it failed with the error:
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Bad Version of provider.
Full stack trace:
Failed: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Bad Version of provider.
at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException.ThrowCryptographicException(Int32 hr)
at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils._ImportCspBlob(Byte[] keyBlob, SafeProvHandle hProv, CspProviderFlags flags, SafeKeyHandle& hKey)
at System.Security.Cryptography.Utils.ImportCspBlobHelper(CspAlgorithmType keyType, Byte[] keyBlob, Boolean publicOnly, CspParameters& parameters, Boolean randomKeyContainer, SafeProvHandle& safeProvHandle, SafeKeyHandle& safeKeyHandle)
at System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider.ImportCspBlob(Byte[] keyBlob)
at ConsoleApplication3.Program.DecodeRSA(Byte[] data, Int32 c_data) in C:\Users\myuser\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\myproj\ConsoleApplication3\Program.cs:line 28
at ConsoleApplication3.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\Users\myuser\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\myproj\ConsoleApplication3\Program.cs:line 14
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Any idea what I am doing wrong?
This is my code:
using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
class Program
{
static public byte[] privateKey;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
privateKey = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:\tmp\private.key");
DecodeRSA(privateKey);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Failed: {0}", e);
}
}
static public void DecodeRSA(byte[] data)
{
using (RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
{
rsa.ImportCspBlob(Program.privateKey);
}
}
}
}
Thanks to the @Topaco answer, I understood that I need to find the CSP blob and like he mentioned, it is undocumented.
So I just used byte[] a = rsa.ExportCspBlob(true);
to get it.
I converted the bytes to base64 and this is a correct key format in base64 that worked for me:
BwIAAACkAABSU0EyAAQAAAEAAQD99dvdVctFcYP6fGCvz/8QcoJqjpfKMPxCIsVRAZSCaKTB6Dl0DbEQBcaLNe8Cm31lzMYyf/2vh6gM+GUHmKcBYo2Z7JvauTGXFXEyv02ai8RINlvAGAicZwWoyGJb5h4sM881Q5+BuDTcoyefk+b7x7KBQjMD/wNuPCWijZ0lsP+Gt1tPryE757QDDl95jQk04ZS+70vGOAO836f+RCyeA6c0ZEA1eYzsM/PVsv+nLwh7pTj7KLFSha5CM304SdcDnyOnt1ARyv1BQsRhyN3IAOH/Se00OfWhcc0sZCjg+xvDebKuoODHDhUfHJPchOmyvhSxjyNACJuxg1uGh3XRmaPoceXXFCuNhFGheK5cQrfUGHpWeJKrpWM/+f3XcrYob0jQCloBIicXfvhhPnkPojiOquxmjy0rA8/JRjHov3+znJY+pQgFC5cUmvGWxhWygm+qDwYco6yCSRkkaIp/K39uJXQ2pQf9XapqjtAJipRo5xX0o/itiDyF1qPT7TumZROMUhU3znXGnxPelZ2bA7SgPiu6BBKADfqG1XJE1K50ydaEfyXYceYHIs7UAMLw9aTptqHbPPGp1hDL2xpWBR6hvqkPqouiVJ7VgPHkjxwT/hgXBvJbHOm/ghq/xA/1oTtXLJHXCASVdylt+nwauOp5qR0Dfdbz7IQGjChYzBHuqDuKorpmfHhZl+bDTHpJ1PjWrojoBfAt2v5zlBnw/ipjkD9MXKrNlPqbgeYXUAeAzfFKQhF2kr3zlmExIS8=
It is important to mentioned that I just need that this function will pass successfully because I am working on a blackbox application and I can't change the code, I need to provide it with the right input.