Load an PEM encoded X.509 certificate into Windows CryptoAPI

Question

I need to load a PEM encoded X.509 certificate into a Windows Crypto API context to use with C++. They are the ones that have -----BEGIN RSA XXX KEY-----

Answer 1

I'm currently facing the same difficulty. I haven't finished coding a solution but as I understand it you need to strip off the ----- BEGIN etc ----- and ----- END etc ------ tags and decode the Base64.

This leaves you with a DER encoded string, which you need to parse to get the modulus and public exponent. From those you can populate the PUBLICKEYSTRUC and RSAPUBKEY structures. Good luck ;-)