I need to load a PEM encoded X.509 certificate into a Windows Crypto API context to use with C++. They are the ones that have -----BEGIN RSA XXX KEY----- and -----END RSA XXX KEY-----. I found examples for Python and .NET but they use specific functions I can't relate to the plain Windows Crypto API.

I understand how to encrypt/decrypt once I've got a HCRYPTKEY. BUT, I just don't get how to import the Base64 blob in the .PEM file(s) and get a HCRYPTKEY that I can use out of it.

I have that strange feeling that there is more to it than simply calling CryptDecodeObject().

Any pointers that can put me on track? I've already lost two days doing "trial & error" programming and getting nowhere.

c++ windows cryptography cryptoapi pem
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