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List:       ms-cryptoapi
Subject:    Re: Format of PVK file
From:       Steve Mayhew <mayhew () FORCE5 ! COM>
Date:       1998-07-22 19:48:12
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>If you find out let me know. The unencrypted form has a PRIVATEKEYBLOB
>after the header, but who wants an unencrypted private key?
Will do.

I wonder if Microsoft has a position on this.   Is Authenicode an open
standard,
or a secret know only to Verisign and MS?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr Stephen Henson <shenson@DRH-CONSULTANCY.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM <CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Format of PVK file


>Steve Mayhew wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Would anyone please pass along the format of the .pvk file (exported
key),
>> the file
>> generated by makecert.  I know starting from byte 0x48 is a BLOBHEADER,
>> I assume the header before it specifies at least how the file is
encrypted
>> (if
>> at all)
>>
>
>If you find out let me know. The unencrypted form has a PRIVATEKEYBLOB
>after the header, but who wants an unencrypted private key?
>
>The encrypted form has what looks like a salt but I don't know the
>encryption algorithm or key derivation algorithm involved.
>
>You can persuade CryptoAPI and Xenroll to convert a key container into a
>PVK file if that is any help.
>
>Steve.
>--
>Dr Stephen N. Henson. UK based freelance Cryptographic Consultant.
>For info see homepage at http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/
>Email: shenson@drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk
>PGP key: via homepage.
>
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