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I have a task of loading and parsing a given certificate file (or a certificate chain in .p12 file). How can I determine if password is required, so that I can ask the user for it? I can catch CryptographicException and see if Message is “The specified network password is not correct.\r\n” but I’d rather avoid exceptions and not rely on strings in them.
.Net provides no way of checking if a certificate has a password. So the only of checking without causing an exception would be to use a 3rd party library.
You should instead allow the user to provide the certificate and password at the same time. If they provide a passworded certificate and no password then that would warrant an exception and requesting a password.