CspKeyContainerInfo.Accessible

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Hello
This is incredible:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.cspkeycontainerinfo.accessible?view=netframework-4.0

Gets a value indicating whether a key in a key container is accessible.

What is a key inside a key container?

If it returns FALSE, means protected in MY store?
Because if False, I also cannot get the Exported/Protected properties!

It also means that if Protected is True, never can get it via Protected property?

Answer 1

@S-Soft , Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

What is a key inside a key container?

The key is the key of the cryptographic key pair.

If it returns FALSE, means protected in MY store?

It only means that it can not be accessed, it may be protected when it return false

Because if False, I also cannot get the Exported/Protected properties!
It also means that if Protected is True, never can get it via Protected property?

The Protected means that Gets a value indicating whether a key pair is protected.

I think it may be different, Accessible is used for key and Protected is used for key pair.

Hope my explanation could help you.

Best Regards,
Jack

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