rsacryptoserviceprovider

I'm having a problem using a machine level RSA key container when storing only the public key of a public/private key pair. The following code creates a public/private pair and extracts the public key from that pair. The pair and the public key are stored in separate key containers. The keys are then obtained from those key containers at which point they should be the same as the keys going into the containers. The code works when CspProviderFlags.UseDefaultKeyContainer is specified for CspParameters.Flags (i.e. the key read back out from the PublicKey container is the same), but when

While decrypting text using RSACryptoServiceProvider.Decrypt , I am getting the error: Error occurred while decoding OAEP padding. Here's my code: CspParameters cspParam = new CspParameters(); cspParam = new CspParameters(); cspParam.Flags = CspProviderFlags.UseMachineKeyStore; clsCertificates cc = new clsCertificates(); string a = ""; cc.OpenStoreIE(ref a); cc.SetProperties(); X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(); cert = cc.x509_2Cert; RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(cspParam); //to gentrate private and public keys from the certificate rsa.FromXmlString

I know this is a similar question to this one but before I head down the Bouncey Castle route, does anyone know if its possible to load an RSA KeyPair from a .pem file, e.g.: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIBOgIBAAJBALKzy66nRuof8Fg0ItatyHS9RiDIKH0m5lorKzKn4y5wR6BXpVUv ZwnevrAJWBd6EPr/lcV3hjObxD6+q9vmN8ECAwEAAQJAGNcxWwfZrbXe3QPyS9FA aindU7U/G5aKssIJcTMxO0UYpGU+WArJbboKeEIE7bpNfhDOKTL7ZL6kWBR1Svlh WQIhAOhtx+xXuSrIot59tmXZaypBDjA4n+Xare0ObFLQxWuvAiEAxNMwm6w33bVr FHS9slkOh59Le2mgs0uNT6perHaRP48CIGMyRzrlDY/m5SvTtz6slgIIlceawxNU Sxp7J1wI4djdAiA6+BchHNjkCP2a9Fr9OydaRMSFpiDqduFQk/enbiKYSwIhANO3

I'm currently trying to create an RSACryptoServiceProvider object solely from a decoded PEM file. After several days of searching, I did manage to wrangle a working solution but it's not one that would be production ready. In a nutshell, in order to create an RSACryptoServiceProvider object from the bytes that make up the public key in a PEM file, I must create the object specifying the keysize (currently 2048 using SHA256, specifically) and then importing a RSAParameters object with the Exponent and Modulus set. I'm doing this as so; byte[] publicKeyBytes = Convert.FromBase64String