Thanks for the advice there

Now the question which follows: How do I do this

I presume it must be done programmatically, as there are no options on the standard UI forms. I think what I want to do is: export the certificate's private key and then import it back without the USER_PROTECTED option (correct me if I'm wrong)

I have got as far as getting the CERT_CONTEXT and CERT_INFO structures of the certificate in question, but can't figure out where to go from here - how do I get the private key? (Or should I be doing something different)

Any advice would be much appreciated - as you can probably tell I'm no expert on the CryptoAPI

Cheer

Pet
   
    ----- Feroze [MSFT] wrote: ----
   
    I think you are getting this error because you have a client certificat
    that is protected by a password. In this case, the OS is asking fo
    confirmation from you before it uses it. This is by design
   
    you need to remove the password protection from the client cert
   
    feroze
   
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    >> I'm using HttpWebRequest to connect to a secure site which requests
    client certificate. When this happens, a dialog box pops up titled "signin
    data with your private exchange key" asking the user to confirm that th
    application should be allowed to use the private key
    >> However, the application makes many connections and I would like t
    suppress this dialog. I understand that the underlying CryptoAPI cal
    concerned is CryptAcquireContext() which needs to be passed the CRYPT_SILEN
    flag
    >> This returns a handle to the CSP, called HCRYPTPROV. Even if the silen
    flag can't be passed, if I could preserve this HCRYPTPROV between calls, a
    least the dialog would only be displayed once
    >> Does anyone have any idea how to make the .NET Framework do either o
    these things? Any suggestions or comments would be much appreciated - I hav
    been looking for a solution to this for ages..
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    >> Pet