Last time, we looked at how you can use a CryptoAPI-backed key as a service account key and use it to authenticate. Now let’s see how you can do the same with CNG. The Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG for short) has been around since Windows Vista and is arguably better than the CryptoAPI, but there is still a lot of code and applications that rely on the CryptoAPI instead of CNG. Part of the reason for that is that .NET Framework was very slow to add support for CNG: It wasn’t unti...
