What does HRESULT 0x80092028 (CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK) mean?

 
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CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK

The available subject-usage verification function could not complete the requested check.

What to check for CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK

  • Capture the requested usage or policy and the certificate chain being evaluated.
  • Check for missing intermediate certificates, required trust lists, or provider-specific prerequisites.
  • Use chain-policy diagnostics to separate usage failure from signature, expiry, and revocation failures.

Microsoft: CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy

Microsoft: CertGetCertificateChain

Diagnostic interpretation of CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK

CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK has the HRESULT value 0x80092028. AllStat records the condition as “The called function was unable to do a usage check on the subject.”. For CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK, in practice, interpret that wording at the boundary owned by cryptography, certificate, trust, or key-provider processing, rather than treating the value as a generic Windows message.

Evidence to capture for CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK

  • Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x80092028 value before a wrapper converts it to an exception or Boolean result.
  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK or the crypt / verify / usage / check operation.
  • For CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK, check the documented return contract of the specific API because the same HRESULT can require different recovery in different interfaces.

Retry and recovery for CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK

Retry CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “The called function was unable to do a usage check on the subject.” has changed. For CRYPT_E_NO_VERIFY_USAGE_CHECK, configuration, policy, format, and authorization failures normally require correction first; an immediate loop can hide the original call site and add secondary errors.


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