X509Certificate Constructor Exception

Question

//cert is an EF Entity and 
//    cert.CertificatePKCS12 is a byte[] with the certificate.

var certificate = new X509Certificate(cert.CertificatePKCS12, \"SomePassw         


        

Answer 1

On an application running IIS 10, I managed to fix the access denied error by using LocalSystem identity for the app pool with the following code:

new X509Certificate2(certificateBinaryData, "password"
                               , X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet |
                                 X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet);

Enabling Load User Profile didn't work for me and while there where many suggestions to do this, they did not indicate that setting for 'Load User Profile' to True only works on user accounts and not:

1. ApplicationPoolIdentity
2. NetworkService