I'm trying to create a self signed certificate in C# that has a non-exportable private, to be used to encrypt/decrypt a symmetrical key.
Now my initial try was to use bouncy castle, also see prev post. Now that isn't working out because I'm not finding any luck on explicitely putting the private key to non-exportable.
Moving on I found the following stack overflow post. Also posted the code I got from there at the bottom of this post.
For my purposes I'd drop the extended key usage part, change the X509PrivateKeyExportFlags to non exportable and change the X509CertificateEnrollmentContext tot CurrentUser Context. However when I do so I get:
CertEnroll::CX509CertificateRequestCertificate::InitializeFromPrivateKey: The parameter is incorrect. 0x80070057 (WIN32: 87 ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER)
Hope someone cna help me out.
removed old code - see current version below
EDIT: current state
public static X509Certificate2 CreateSelfSignedCertificate(string subjectName)
{
// create DN for subject and issuer
var dn = new CX500DistinguishedName();
dn.Encode("CN=" + subjectName, X500NameFlags.XCN_CERT_NAME_STR_NONE);
// create a new private key for the certificate
CX509PrivateKey privateKey = new CX509PrivateKey();
privateKey.ProviderName = "Microsoft Base Cryptographic Provider v1.0";
privateKey.MachineContext = false;
privateKey.Length = 2048;
privateKey.KeySpec = X509KeySpec.XCN_AT_KEYEXCHANGE; // use is not limited
privateKey.ExportPolicy = X509PrivateKeyExportFlags.XCN_NCRYPT_ALLOW_EXPORT_NONE;
privateKey.Create();
// Use the stronger SHA512 hashing algorithm
var hashobj = new CObjectId();
hashobj.InitializeFromAlgorithmName(ObjectIdGroupId.XCN_CRYPT_HASH_ALG_OID_GROUP_ID,
ObjectIdPublicKeyFlags.XCN_CRYPT_OID_INFO_PUBKEY_ANY,
AlgorithmFlags.AlgorithmFlagsNone, "SHA256");
// Create the self signing request
var cert = new CX509CertificateRequestCertificate();
cert.InitializeFromPrivateKey(X509CertificateEnrollmentContext.ContextUser, privateKey, "");
cert.Subject = dn;
cert.Issuer = dn; // the issuer and the subject are the same
cert.NotBefore = DateTime.Now;
// this cert expires immediately. Change to whatever makes sense for you
cert.NotAfter = cert.NotBefore.AddYears(5);
cert.HashAlgorithm = hashobj; // Specify the hashing algorithm
cert.Encode(); // encode the certificate
// Do the final enrollment process
var enroll = new CX509Enrollment();
enroll.InitializeFromRequest(cert); // load the certificate
enroll.CertificateFriendlyName = subjectName; // Optional: add a friendly name
string csr = enroll.CreateRequest(); // Output the request in base64
// and install it back as the response
enroll.InstallResponse(InstallResponseRestrictionFlags.AllowUntrustedCertificate,
csr, EncodingType.XCN_CRYPT_STRING_BASE64, ""); // no password
// output a base64 encoded PKCS#12 so we can import it back to the .Net security classes
var base64encoded = enroll.CreatePFX("", // no password, this is for internal consumption
PFXExportOptions.PFXExportChainWithRoot);
// instantiate the target class with the PKCS#12 data (and the empty password)
return new System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2(
System.Convert.FromBase64String(base64encoded), "",
// mark the private key as exportable (this is usually what you want to do)
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable
);
}
After changing the KeySpec to "AT_KeyEchange" I now get:
Exception thrown: 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' in MyTool.exe Exception thrown: 'System.NullReferenceException' in MyTool.exe CertEnroll::CX509PrivateKey::Create: Invalid flags specified. 0x80090009 (-2146893815 NTE_BAD_FLAGS).
I changed it because encryption/decryption wasn't working anymore, figured it was because of the KeySet mode but now I need to change more. I'm assuming that the hashobject might be incorrect here? Shouldn't it be like SHA256withRSA or something like that? (in my bouncy castle implementation I used: "SHA256WithRSA".
Or am I missing something else?
