Creating an ECC Private/Public key with native C#

Question

I\'ve been looking around for hours on Google and Microsoft\'s Crypto API on how to generate a public and private ECC key pair. The ECDiffieHellmanCng Class (ht

Answer 1

I believe this is what you are looking for? If yes, please mark as (my first!) answer :-)

Most of this related to the CngKey, that can be used in many variations.

    static void test1()
    {
        CngKey k;

        if (CngKey.Exists("myECDH", CngProvider.MicrosoftSoftwareKeyStorageProvider, CngKeyOpenOptions.MachineKey))
        {
            k = CngKey.Open("myECDH", CngProvider.MicrosoftSoftwareKeyStorageProvider, CngKeyOpenOptions.MachineKey);
        }
        else
        {
            k = CngKey.Create(CngAlgorithm.ECDiffieHellmanP256, "myECDH", new CngKeyCreationParameters
        {
            ExportPolicy = CngExportPolicies.AllowPlaintextExport,
            KeyCreationOptions = CngKeyCreationOptions.MachineKey,
            KeyUsage = CngKeyUsages.AllUsages,
            Provider = CngProvider.MicrosoftSoftwareKeyStorageProvider,
            UIPolicy = new CngUIPolicy(CngUIProtectionLevels.None)
        });
        }

        byte[] privateBytes = k.Export(CngKeyBlobFormat.EccPrivateBlob);
        byte[] publicBytes = k.Export(CngKeyBlobFormat.EccPublicBlob);

        //This:
        var privateTester1 =
            new ECDiffieHellmanCng(CngKey.Import(privateBytes, CngKeyBlobFormat.EccPrivateBlob,
                CngProvider.MicrosoftSoftwareKeyStorageProvider));

        //Or that:
        var privateTester2 = new ECDiffieHellmanCng(k);
    }