hey gang,

i am a developing webapp that requires a client-side certificate in
order to consume our partner's webservice. i have finished this app
and, on Windows XP, i can install their cert via MMC and everything is
honky dory.

but on a Windows 2000 Server (W2K), things are not. While using MMC to
install the .pfx cert on the Local Machine, i get this:

"An internal error occured. The private key that you are importing
might require a cryptographic service provider that is not installed on
your system."

now ive done some research and have found the following MS posting:

    http://support.microsoft.com/k­­b/313494

....but it says thats only on SP1 & SP2, and to install the latest SP.
our machine has Service Pack 4 (SP4) installed. so, its not that easy.


can anyone help?


thanks!
matt

im comparing the Services running on both the XP and the W2K machine,
and i think i see something that may be the problem. XP has
"Cryptographic Services" installed and running, where as my W2K machine
does not. the file behind this service is
'C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs"

anyone know if this is something which can be installed?

Error instantiating RSACryptoServiceProvider
Error from CAS Config util
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