Hi all,
I always read example code to sign data with a private key inside a pfx
file but how I can set csp to get a user's private key directly from his
smartcard?

thanks advanced

Francesco

Hello Francesco,

you can't. Once the private key is on a smartcard there is no "legal" way
to retrieve that key again.

You can of course use the the smartcard for signatures.

..NET 2.0 has built in support for that (System.Security.Cryptography.X509)
- in 1.1 you have to use a library called CAPICOM from Microsoft.

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

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