Problem with WinCAPI

[Matthias Niggemeier <m...@thias.de>]

Hi there!
I tried to use WinCAPI instead of OpenSSL, but when I try
to initialize the Xsec-Lib, I get an exception
"Error obtaining default PROV_DSS". What´s this?
(Win2000 with VC6)

Greetings
Matthias

Re: Problem with WinCAPI

[Berin Lautenbach <be...@ozemail.com.au>]

Matthias,

Firstly - wery experimental at the moment.

What I found was that to get things to work well I _had_ to firstly seed 
the containers with RSA and DSA key pairs.  Theoretically you can use 
the CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT in the CrypAcquireContext() calls in the various 
tools, which should tell CAPI not to use private keys - I.e. we are just 
verifying signatures, but I found there were problems with various 
digest functions.  I have not yet had the cycles to sort this one out.

You might want to use the CRYPT_NEWKEYSET flag in the two calls to 
CryptAcquireContext in xtest to get it to generate default RSA and DSA 
key pairs.

Cheers,
	Berin

Matthias Niggemeier wrote:
> Hi there!
> I tried to use WinCAPI instead of OpenSSL, but when I try
> to initialize the Xsec-Lib, I get an exception
> "Error obtaining default PROV_DSS". What´s this?
> (Win2000 with VC6)
> 
> Greetings
> Matthias