Strong Name Keys on Windows 7

Question

Hi

Attempting to use http://code.google.com/p/moq/ in VS2010 running Administrator on a Win7 virtual machine.

I'm getting an ArgumentException: Unable to obtain public key for StrongNameKeyPair

Have changed permissions here to be Full Control for Everyone

C:\Users\dave\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA

I can't get any projects that use Moq to run tests (eg NerdDinner)

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Not sure if this will help but from Ayende's blog:

Most often the issue is file permission one. And the troublesome directory is (drum roll): "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA"

The default permission for this directory are:

cacls MachineKeys MachineKeys Everyone:(special access:) READ_CONTROL SYNCHRONIZE FILE_GENERIC_READ FILE_GENERIC_WRITE FILE_READ_DATA FILE_WRITE_DATA FILE_APPEND_DATA FILE_READ_EA FILE_WRITE_EA FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES

BUILTIN\Administrators:F

Administrators has full control, everyone has had read/write access, but not delete access.