Re: Cryptography- RSA

Alex,
for future enquires - microsoft.public.security.crypto should be used for cryptography related questions.
As about your question - standard installation of Windows 98 SE doesn't include strong or enhanced cryptography providers - only Base provider which only support 512 bits encryption keys (due to old US strong crypto exporting restrictions, that were significantly relaxed 5-6 years ago).
If I remember it correctly, there were dowloadable "strong cryptography pack" that could be installed on W98SE. However you still need specifying explicitely that you intend to use strong provider when aquaring context, because base provider is used by default on W98SE/WME/NT4.

-Valery.
http://www.harper.no/valery

"Alex Kazovic" <alex_kazovic@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%2365$XYXnFHA.3448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Hi All

Not sure is ths is the right newgroup; if not could you point me in the right direction?

I've written an application for .Net 1.1 that uses the RSACryptoServiceProvider. It all works fine when I tested it on Windows XP, Windows2003 etc. But a customer has Windows 98 SE and they have the following exception thrown:

Error Byte array is too large. The maximum size byte array that can be encrypted by this public key implementation is 16 bytes.

Does anybody know if there is a patch I can download for Windows 98 SE that will fix this or does it not work on Windows 98 SE?

Thanks


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