sn.exe fails with Access Denied error message

Question

I get an Access is Denied error message when I use the strong name tool to create a new key to sign a .NET assembly. This works just fine on a Windows XP machine but it doe

Answer 1

Just to update this a bit: I ran into the same problem on Vista. My local user on the PC had no problem but then we switched to a domain and my domain user (albeit having local admin rights) got "Access Denied". I granted my domain user access rights to C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys and that fixed it.