Internal format of RSA private keys in microsoft keystore.

[t.c.jones at att.net]

key containers in MS are encrypted.
there is a capi m/l to be found at 
http://discuss.microsoft.com/archives/index.html
..tom
> Greetings,
> 
> In the process of trying to work around some of the limitations
> of the m$-CAPI API, I'm trying to decipher the internal representation
> of private keys in the default m$ key store, in order to extract
> the private key out.
> 
> The systems I'm working on are Win2K and XP, both on NTFS.
> 
> Google didn't give me much. Has anyone been able to figure out
> the format of private key files? You can have a look at
> C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/
> Crypto/RSA/*/filename
> 
> I'm trying this because CryptAcquireContext() dies with the error
> NTE_BAD_KEYSET half the time. This is supposed to indicate that the
> key container doesn't exist or it could be corrupted. At this point
> I'm trying to see if the files are in good shape by reading them
> out.
> 
> Having come from a Unix world, there may be something obvious I'm
> missing out, so please have patience :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Sriram.
> 
> 
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