X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile - the specified network password is not correct

Question

I have a .NET application that I want to use as a client to call an SSL SOAP web service. I have been supplied with a valid client certificate called foo.pfx. T

Answer 1

In my case I was trying to run in the Private Application mode and I got the same error.

The specified network password is not correct

The PrivateAuthenticator constructor (in Xero.Api.Example.Applications.Private) was trying to import the certificate assuming there is no password defined during the creation of the certificate.

_certificate = new X509Certificate2();
_certificate.Import(certificatePath);

Then I changed the import to use an overload method which uses the password,

_certificate.Import(certificatePath, "mypasswordusedtocreatethecertificate",  X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet);