Open and Decrypt Secret Key

[Susan]

I'm trying to write a program in C# using .Nets crypto library. I have my
private key and know my password, but how do I load it into my program to use
for encryption and decryption? Everything I had found so far, has had the
user generate one through .Net, but I have to be able to load my own.

Thank you,
Susan

[Vijay]

I have done something like this to enc' strings and our xml files.. Can you
be a little more specific Susan of what you are trying to do?.. maybe like a
pseudo code.. I can try to help

VJ

"Susan" <Su***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to write a program in C# using .Nets crypto library. I have my
private key and know my password, but how do I load it into my program to
use
for encryption and decryption? Everything I had found so far, has had the
user generate one through .Net, but I have to be able to load my own.

Thank you,
Susan

[Stuart Irving]

string symmetricKeyString = @"base64encodedString";

byte[] symmetricKey = Convert.FromBase64String(symmetricKeyString);

SymmetricAlgorithm symmetricAlgorithm = new RijndaelManaged(); <- or
whatever

symmetricAlgorithm.Key = symmetricKey;

etc...

HTH

"Susan" <Su***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to write a program in C# using .Nets crypto library. I have my
private key and know my password, but how do I load it into my program to
use
for encryption and decryption? Everything I had found so far, has had the
user generate one through .Net, but I have to be able to load my own.

Thank you,
Susan

[Susan]

How do you decode the secret key (session key in this case) with your private
key?
For instance User1 and User2 are in a conversation and each comes up with
half of the secret key. I need to use the private key to decrypt the secret
key in order to set the AES/Rijndeal key for encrypting and decrypting the
message. I know to Base64Decode the private key, but how do I decrypt it to
find out the secret key for the message passing?

Sorry for such silly questions. I'm really new to this stuff and trying to
learn. :)

Thank you,

[phil]

Have you downloaded the .Net SDK? It has documentation that has examples on
secret key encryption.

"Susan" wrote:

How do you decode the secret key (session key in this case) with your private
key?
For instance User1 and User2 are in a conversation and each comes up with
half of the secret key. I need to use the private key to decrypt the secret
key in order to set the AES/Rijndeal key for encrypting and decrypting the
message. I know to Base64Decode the private key, but how do I decrypt it to
find out the secret key for the message passing?

Sorry for such silly questions. I'm really new to this stuff and trying to
learn. :)

Thank you,

[William Stacey [MVP]]

Hi Susan. What are you doing exactly? I have some samples, but need to
know more about what you are trying to do on both sides to help better.

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William Stacey [MVP]

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| How do you decode the secret key (session key in this case) with your
private
| key?
| For instance User1 and User2 are in a conversation and each comes up with
| half of the secret key. I need to use the private key to decrypt the
secret
| key in order to set the AES/Rijndeal key for encrypting and decrypting the
| message. I know to Base64Decode the private key, but how do I decrypt it
to
| find out the secret key for the message passing?
|
| Sorry for such silly questions. I'm really new to this stuff and trying to
| learn. :)
|
| Thank you,