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AsnEncodedData Class

AsnEncodedDataCollection Class

AsnEncodedDataEnumerator Class

AsymmetricAlgorithm Class

AsymmetricKeyExchangeDeformatter Class

AsymmetricKeyExchangeFormatter Class

AsymmetricSignatureDeformatter Class

AsymmetricSignatureFormatter Class

CipherMode Enumeration

CngAlgorithm Class

CngAlgorithmGroup Class

CngExportPolicies Enumeration

CngKey Class

CngKeyBlobFormat Class

CngKeyCreationOptions Enumeration

CngKeyCreationParameters Class

CngKeyHandleOpenOptions Enumeration

CngKeyOpenOptions Enumeration

CngKeyUsages Enumeration

CngProperty Structure

CngPropertyCollection Class

CngPropertyOptions Enumeration

CngProvider Class

CngUIPolicy Class

CngUIProtectionLevels Enumeration

CryptoAPITransform Class

CryptoConfig Class

CryptographicAttributeObject Class

CryptographicAttributeObjectCollection Class

CryptographicAttributeObjectEnumerator Class

CryptographicException Class

CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException Class

CryptoStream Class

CryptoStreamMode Enumeration

CspKeyContainerInfo Class

CspParameters Class

CspProviderFlags Enumeration

DataProtectionScope Enumeration

DataProtector Class

DeriveBytes Class

DES Class

DESCryptoServiceProvider Class

DpapiDataProtector Class

DSA Class

DSACryptoServiceProvider Class

DSAParameters Structure

DSASignatureDeformatter Class

DSASignatureFormatter Class

ECDiffieHellman Class

ECDiffieHellmanCng Class

ECDiffieHellmanCngPublicKey Class

ECDiffieHellmanKeyDerivationFunction Enumeration

ECDiffieHellmanPublicKey Class

ECDsa Class

ECKeyXmlFormat Enumeration

FromBase64Transform Class

FromBase64TransformMode Enumeration

HashAlgorithm Class

HMAC Class

HMACMD5 Class

HMACRIPEMD160 Class

HMACSHA256 Class

HMACSHA384 Class

HMACSHA512 Class

ICryptoTransform Interface

ICspAsymmetricAlgorithm Interface

KeyedHashAlgorithm Class

KeyNumber Enumeration

MACTripleDES Class

ManifestSignatureInformation Class

ManifestSignatureInformationCollection Class

MaskGenerationMethod Class

MD5 Class

MD5Cng Class

MD5CryptoServiceProvider Class

MemoryProtectionScope Enumeration

Oid Class

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OidEnumerator Class

OidGroup Enumeration

PaddingMode Enumeration

PasswordDeriveBytes Class

PKCS1MaskGenerationMethod Class

ProtectedData Class

ProtectedMemory Class

RandomNumberGenerator Class

RC2 Class

RC2CryptoServiceProvider Class

Rfc2898DeriveBytes Class

RijndaelManaged Class

RijndaelManagedTransform Class

RIPEMD160 Class

RIPEMD160Managed Class

RNGCryptoServiceProvider Class

RSA Class

RSACryptoServiceProvider Class

RSAOAEPKeyExchangeDeformatter Class

RSAOAEPKeyExchangeFormatter Class

RSAParameters Structure

RSAPKCS1KeyExchangeDeformatter Class

RSAPKCS1KeyExchangeFormatter Class

RSAPKCS1SignatureDeformatter Class

RSAPKCS1SignatureFormatter Class

SHA1 Class

SHA1Cng Class

SHA1CryptoServiceProvider Class

SHA1Managed Class

SHA256 Class

SHA256Cng Class

SHA256CryptoServiceProvider Class

SHA256Managed Class

SHA384 Class

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SHA384CryptoServiceProvider Class

SHA384Managed Class

SHA512 Class

SHA512Cng Class

SHA512CryptoServiceProvider Class

SHA512Managed Class

SignatureDescription Class

SignatureVerificationResult Enumeration

StrongNameSignatureInformation Class

SymmetricAlgorithm Class

ToBase64Transform Class

TripleDES Class

TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider Class

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KeyNumber Enumeration

.NET Framework 4.5

Specifies whether to create an asymmetric signature key or an asymmetric exchange key.

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

'Declaration
<SerializableAttribute> _
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
Public Enumeration KeyNumber

	Member name	Description
	Exchange	An exchange key pair used to encrypt session keys so that they can be safely stored and exchanged with other users. This value corresponds to the AT_KEYEXCHANGE value used in the unmanaged Microsoft Cryptographic API (CAPI).
	Signature	A signature key pair used for authenticating digitally signed messages or files. This value corresponds to the AT_SIGNATURE value used in the unmanaged Microsoft Cryptographic API (CAPI).

Use the KeyNumber enumeration with the KeyNumber property to inspect a key type or with the KeyNumber field to specify a key type.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the KeyNumber enumeration to specify a key type for an RSACryptoServiceProvider object.

' Create a new CspParameters object. 
Dim cspParams As New CspParameters()

' Specify an exchange key.
cspParams.KeyNumber = Fix(KeyNumber.Exchange)

' Initialize the RSACryptoServiceProvider   
' with the CspParameters object. 
Dim RSACSP As New RSACryptoServiceProvider(cspParams)

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

System.Security.Cryptography Namespace

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