decrypt p7m file in C# or .NET with privateKey from file

Hi,
Hopefully someone can help me with code because I am working on it 3 months without any success. I tried almost anything from internet but nothing does not work. :crybaby:

Problem: I have encrypted file p7m (size 158KB) (it is crypted text). I have certificate in file pfx, under password "a". In this certificate is the public key which is needed to decrypt p7m file.

I need something that will read xyyv.p7m file, decrypt it with public key, and save it as XYZ.xyz

I do not put here any my code to do not confuse you. thanks

I think that you need to start with the EnvelopedCms class and maybe use the Decode () method followed by the Decrypt method. It is hard to figure out from the documentation, but this page may help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=VS.90%29.aspx

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Originally Posted by janos™

I think that you need to start with the EnvelopedCms class and maybe use the Decode () method followed by the Decrypt method. It is hard to figure out from the documentation, but this page may help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=VS.90%29.aspx

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I have files already in C: drive. So open the file is no problem. It could be easily read. Next steps to decrypt these bytes by private key from pfx file, or from installed at PC, simply does not work for me. The principle is simple:

1. read file to memory
2. read private key from pfx file
3. decrypt file in memory by private key
4. save decrypted text

...but #2 and #3 does not work.

for #2 I have this code:
X509KeyStorageFlags flags = X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable;
X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2("my.pfx", "somepass", flags);
RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = (RSACryptoServiceProvider)cert.PrivateKey;
RSAParameters rsaParam = rsa.ExportParameters(true);


but I have problem to use this info in #3 part - use it in decryption.

To create this container, you can use pvk2pfx:

Code:

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pvk2pfx -spc CA.cer -pvk CA.pvk -pfx CA.pfx

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(If you don't specify -pfx CA.pfx, it will launch the interactive interface, in which case you need to tick the box to export the private key.)

Then, try to decrypt using that pfx/p12 file instead.