Associate a private key with the X509Certificate2 class in .net
You can save yourself the hassle of copy-pasting all that code and store the private key next to the certificate in a pfx/pkcs#12 file: openssl pkcs12 -export -in my.cer -inkey my.key -out mycert.pfx You’ll have to supply a password, which you have to pass to the constructor of X509Certificate2: X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(“mycert.pfx”,”password”);