Question

This is follow up on Mono xbuild error CS1548 – key file has incorrect format

Hi, I have an application that is written in C# using VS2008. At present we are porting this app to Mac using Mono.

I have tried to extract the key from the pfx file.
First I used

`sn -pc key.pfx key.snk`

this gave me an error of

'Failed to extract public key for key pair -- Keyset does not exist'.

I then used

`sn -p key.pfx key.snk`

this created the snk file that I wanted.
I then in mono selected the project Option > Assembly Signing
When built the error

'key.snk is missing private key needed for signing'.

I think I understand that if I make a new snk key that I can have both private and public keys in it. It just that because of Legacy issues we would really like to be able to use the original pfx key values.

Answer 1

Big thanks Poupou for coming up with the answer I have just added the code to the little program I made to get my snk.

using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

namespace PfxSnk
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(@"KEY.pfx", "pfxPassword", X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable | X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet);
            RSACryptoServiceProvider provider = (RSACryptoServiceProvider)cert.PrivateKey;

            byte[] array = provider.ExportCspBlob(!provider.PublicOnly);

            using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("FileName.snk", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
            {
                fs.Write(array, 0, array.Length);
            }
        }
    }
}