Can't UseEncryption with MSMQ

[Dave]

I'm trying to encrypt the body of my msmq messages by
setting the UseEncryption property on the message. This throws an
exception UnsupportedFormatNameOperation. I'm using msmq for ipc on a
single server, the queues are all private and there is no AD domain -
the server is a member of an NT4 domain. I'm specifying the queue as
".\private$\QueueName" and everything works fine until I enable the
UseEncryption switch.

I haven't been able to find any info in MSDN relating to this; msdn
just says the requirements are the standard platforms (Windows 98,
Windows NT 4.0, etc).

The alternative is to encrypt the data myself prior to sending but that
seems like a lot of effort when UseEncryption should be able to provide
the same functionality.

Any clues would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Dave

 

[Guest]

Did you try to use EncryptionAlgorithm property?

It may be expecting what type of algorithm you want to use.

 

[Dave]

I didn't try that, the default for EncryptionAlgorithm is RC2 which is
fine.