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PrivateKey Property

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Gets or sets the AsymmetricAlgorithm object that represents the private key associated with a certificate.

Namespace:  System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates
Assembly:  System.Security (in System.Security.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property PrivateKey As AsymmetricAlgorithm
public AsymmetricAlgorithm PrivateKey { get; }
public:
property AsymmetricAlgorithm^ PrivateKey {
    AsymmetricAlgorithm^ get ();
}
member PrivateKey : AsymmetricAlgorithm with get
function get PrivateKey () : AsymmetricAlgorithm

Property Value

Type: System.Security.Cryptography. . :: . .AsymmetricAlgorithm
An AsymmetricAlgorithm object, which is either an RSA or DSA cryptographic service provider.

Remarks

Currently this property supports only RSA or DSA keys, so it returns either an RSACryptoServiceProvider or a DSACryptoServiceProvider object. If no private key is associated with the certificate, it returns null Nothing nullptr unit a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) .

Warning

If you set this property to null Nothing nullptr unit a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or to another key without first deleting it, a private key file is left on the disk.

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

X509Certificate2 Class

System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates Namespace