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I have the following method that is able to read in a private key that is in XML format.

private RSAParameters GetPrivateKey(string privateKeyPath)

 RSAParameters privateKey;

 string readContents;
 using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(privateKeyPath, Encoding.UTF8))
 
 readContents = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
 

 using (var rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(2048))
 
 rsa.FromXmlString(readContents);
 privateKey = rsa.ExportParameters(true);
 

 return privateKey;

I want to change that method to us a private key that is in PEM format.

My private key looks like this:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEAuc7/6TDyberFapcC2XfXKXzF2W8IxfgVXigduvE6B0IQBfxD
J1WcWrNriERUsMpKw/2zphxIXHLrsMZ0l5FcxuZBEqtjSskMqOaMKitMfuZBrcaX
e/0W9HUgPEUBNEv35UHtZbInk7K72KEYaTkoxmI8pP/g82lWnGPw1HgjtFWbL9Vx
--8<-----------8<------------8<-----------8<-----------8<-------
SQBBCQKBgQCaOvc8cmtR8vm8HWKJ93qA0OFmUNcW5Rd32q5Zy2FSFfhODnajP7fE
kqOL1+QS4uxd5e35PCkhYVZkAigKt+I+Mx+M14HLyx6gdeU1fXJGh/LltyWM9cra
Rb059rp8d/1c128t7WdCctAcV09PDVbV8T7xVtr7agBLM47LbgL1QQ==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

I would think this would be very simple to find on the RSCryptoServiceProvider class documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.rsacryptoserviceprovider?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=netframework-4.7.2

But it is not.

The FromXmlString method is documented as "Initializes an RSA Object from XML", I would expect to a see a similar method with "Initializes an RSA Object from PEM".

[EDIT]

I tried to use this solution:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32243171/192044

But it gave this error: