How to store a public key in a machine-level RSA key container

Question

I\'m having a problem using a machine level RSA key container when storing only the public key of a public/private key pair.

The following code creates a public/pri

Answer 1

It seems that key containers are not intended for this purpose (this is implied by "How to: Store Asymmetric Keys in a Key Container" from the .NET Framework Developer's Guide, and confirmed by a disccusion on MSDN).

Other mechanisms, such as storing the key in an XML file, need to be used to achieve this goal.