NCryptoki

One of our customers asked an interesting questions:- "Is it possible to export a private key using NCryptoki?"

The answer is yes if, and only if, the private key is extractable (some tokens may not allow to extract a private key).
Below there is a snippet to export a private key:

 // Searchs for an RSA private key object
CryptokiCollection template = new CryptokiCollection();
template.Add(new ObjectAttribute(ObjectAttribute.CKA_CLASS, CryptokiObject.CKO_PRIVATE_KEY));
template.Add(new ObjectAttribute(ObjectAttribute.CKA_KEY_TYPE, Key.CKK_RSA));
            
// Launchs the search specifying the template just created
CryptokiCollection objects = session.Objects.Find(template, 1);

if(objects.count == 0)
{
     // PRIVATE KEY NOT FOUND
     return false;
}

// takes the first object as key
RSAPrivateKey privateKey = (RSAPrivateKey)objects[0];

// check if extractable
if(!privateKey.Extractable)
{
    // NOT EXTRACTABLE    
    return false;
}

// Extract modulus and private exponent
byte[] modulus = privateKey.Modulus;
byte[] privateExponent = privateKey.PrivateExponent; 

After the new release of Virtual Cryptoki, that fixes several known bugs (that many of you have asked for a long time), we have found a very strange bug in our Virtual Cryptoki. If the smart card service is down the Virtual Cryptoki generates an exception while opening a session.

We have fixed it in the new version 1.0.6.4.

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