What does HRESULT 0x80092006 (CRYPT_E_NO_PROVIDER) mean?

 
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CRYPT_E_NO_PROVIDER

No certificate-store or cryptographic provider was specified for the operation. The caller has not supplied enough context for CryptoAPI to open the requested store or object.

What to check for CRYPT_E_NO_PROVIDER

  • Check the provider type, provider name, and store parameters supplied to the failing API.
  • Verify that the code uses the intended current-user, local-machine, memory, or system store context.
  • Do not install unrelated cryptographic providers to hide a missing caller configuration.

Microsoft: Managing certificates with certificate stores

Microsoft: CryptMsgOpenToDecode

Diagnostic interpretation

CRYPT_E_NO_PROVIDER has the HRESULT value 0x80092006. AllStat records the condition as “No provider was specified for the store or object.”.

Evidence to capture

  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the crypt / provider operation.
  • compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.

Retry and recovery

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