I am looking to encrypt files with X509 certificates using public and private keys and send them to a remote server. How would I do this? Is this even possible? How do I generate the certificate and then the public and private key pairs?
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A:
See this SO question how to create a RSACryptoServiceProvider
from a X509Certificate2
that can be used to encrypt and decrypt files.
The .NET framework does not contain classes to generate X.509 certificates. Mono's security classes (Mono.Security.X509
) and BouncyCastle support the creation of X.509 certificates from C#. Alternatively, you can use tools like OpenSSL or makecert.exe
to generate certificates.
dtb
2009-11-21 18:10:35
Thank you for your help!
Greg Finzer
2009-11-22 19:13:58