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List:       ms-cryptoapi
Subject:    Re: Can MS Base CSP keys context in a MS Enhanced CSP?
From:       Dave Maracchini <davem () TRISTRATA ! COM>
Date:       1999-08-26 16:23:05
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Actually you're getting the illusion of success here. If keys are gen'd on
the enhanced provider, the base provider won't be able to handle them due to
key size limits.

-dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Microsoft Cryptographic API
[mailto:CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM]On Behalf Of Gates, Matthew S
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:12 AM
To: CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: Re: Can MS Base CSP keys context in a MS Enhanced CSP?


Keys are not specific to any single CSP.  The CSP is only a way of exposing
keys in containers on your system.  Thus, both the Base and Enhanced CSPs
can get a handle to the same key just fine.  Since they are both RSA
providers it makes sense that they could successfully use the same keys.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Greenblott [mailto:rgreenblott@ALTIGA.COM]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:06 AM
To: CryptoAPI@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: Can MS Base CSP keys context in a MS Enhanced CSP?


I am having some conceptual problems with the use of MS Base CSP and MS
Enhanced CSP. It seems that I can place a key in to the MS Base CSP and get
its context when specifying it as a MS Enhanced CSP. This is not what I
expected. By the ways I still can get its context using the MS Base CSP.

Is MS Base CSP connected in some way to MS Enhanced? Or is MS Base CSP a
subset of the MS Enhanced and as such an MS Enhanced CSP has access to its
keying information?

Any help would be great!!!!

Thanks:

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