makecert gives "Fail to acquire a security provider from the issuer's certificate" - why?
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Dear ladies and sirs. Observe this simple batch file:
makecert -n "CN=MyCA" -sr localmachine -ss root -a sha1 -cy authority -r -sv MyCA.pvk MyCA.cer
del MyCA.pvk
del MyCA.cer
makecert -n "CN=il-mark-lt" -sr localmachine -ss my -cy end -pe -sky exchange -a sha1 -is root -ir localmachine -in MyCA
However, the last makecert fails with the following error message:
Error: Fail to acquire a security provider from the issuer's certificate
How do I troubleshoot it? Any ideas? BTW, the first makecert succeeds. Of course, I delete it again, before running the commands again.
Thanks.
EDIT1
I understood the reasons for the failure. The second command expects the file MyCA.pvk to exist, but I do not want to keep it around. So, what can I do?
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