Ncryptopenstorageprovider Jun 2026

// ... Perform key operations here (e.g., NCryptCreatePersistedKey) ...

The following example demonstrates how to open the default Microsoft Software provider. ncryptopenstorageprovider

wprintf(L"Error opening provider: 0x%x\n", status); ncryptopenstorageprovider

// Open the default key storage provider // Passing NULL as the second argument loads the default provider status = NCryptOpenStorageProvider( &hProvider, NULL, // Default Provider (MS_KEY_STORAGE_PROVIDER) 0 // Flags ); ncryptopenstorageprovider