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) to manage cryptographic keys, including support for software-based and TPM-based providers. For complete technical documentation, visit Microsoft Learn Microsoft Learn NCryptOpenStorageProvider function (ncrypt.h) - Win32 apps

Microsoft ships several standard providers with Windows: ncryptopenstorageprovider

Returns ERROR_SUCCESS (0) on success, or an NTE_* error code. ) to manage cryptographic keys, including support for

: Official Microsoft Learn documentation warns that a service must never call this function from its StartService routine, as it can cause a deadlock. ) to manage cryptographic keys

This is a null-terminated wide character string. Use one of the predefined constants or the explicit name of a third-party KSP.

bool GetHsmProviderHandle() if (g_hHsmProvider) return true; return NCryptOpenStorageProvider(&g_hHsmProvider, L"MyEnterpriseHSMProvider", 0) == ERROR_SUCCESS;

The function is defined in the header ncrypt.h and links against ncrypt.lib . Its signature is as follows: