"Valery Pryamikov" <valery@harper.no> wrote in message
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>I guess your problem is following:
> - your webersvers are running in separate application pools that uses
> different users with different access.
> - second app. pool doesn't have enogh right to access machine keys.
> - access denied code become swallowed somewhere in your code
> - and you use keypair that was generated by default when you create new
> instance of RSACryptoServiceProvider.
>
> this is most plausible explanation of your problem, but of course I
> might be wrong (since this is only a guess).
>
> -Valery
> http://www.harper.no/valery
>
> Juan Romero wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> I have a small class in a web app that encrypts and decrypts values using
>> the RSACryptoServiceProvider class, using the machine key store. The code
>> works fine and I am able to encrypt/decrypt information fine in my
>> application.
>>
>> However, the encrypted information is being stored in a database, which I
>> later try to access from another web app, which is unable to decrypt the
>> information and throws a "Bad Data" error. Both web apps reside in the
>> same
>> server, only different host headers (websiteA.com, websiteB.com)
>>
>> Does anybody know why I am unable to decrypt this? Is the store keeping
>> different key information for each domain?
>>
>> Thank you in advance, you can reach me at
>> juanr<ATSIGN>vantageapparel<DOT>com
>