I have .NET web application where trying to import the certificate using the “X509Certificate2”. While importing, getting the “The specified network password is not correct.”. The certificate is password protected “.pfx” file and I’m providing the password too while importing the certificate. Here are the steps to produce the issue:

• In Global.asax.cs file, loading/importing the certificate on Application_Start by using:

X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(“path_to_pfx_certificate_file”),
“password”,X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet);

It’s breaking and throwing the exception “The specified network password is not correct”.

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I tried multiple solutions like:

• Setting user profile true in IIS
• Setting up multiple key flags like (DefaultKeySet, MachineKeySet, UserKeySet etc)

But nothing works.

Any help would be appreaciated.