Is it possible to encrypt with private key using .net RSACryptoServiceProvider?

Question

I know that RSACryptoServiceProvider can encrypt with the public key, then it can be decrypted with the private key.

Is it possible to encrypt with the private key a

Answer 1

You can both encrypt and decrypt with PrivateKey. PrivateKey infact contains both Private and PublicKey.

Theoretically at least you can encrypt with PublicKey and decrypt with PrivateKey and vice-versa. In VB.net I see the first case works and secondcase throws BadKey error