Using X509Certificate2 to get PrivateKey causes CryptographicException “Invalid provider type specified”

Question

everyone,

I am developing a web application that uses X509Certificate2 to get a private key from a certification file. Code snippet looks like following:

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Answer 1

I have been having the same problem and this is what I did to solve it. Hopefully this will help you too.

We had to set Load User Profile to True in the app pools advanced settings

You can also set it in the web.config I believe.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vijaysk/2009/03/08/iis-7-tip-3-you-can-now-load-the-user-profile-of-the-application-pool-identity/