Using RSA Public Key Encryption in a Shared Web Hosting Environment

IntroductionIf you are thinking of using RSA encryption on a Web server maintained by a shared hosting company (as many small websites are), you might find yourself out of luck. The RSA encryption class (RSACryptoServiceProvider) supplied by .NET is not usable in such an environment because it would compromise the security of the server's own private keys. This article provides an alternative