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Open IIS8. Faced same issue and resolved the issue by implementation of below 3 steps. The content you requested has been removed. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Also discuss all the other Microsoft libraries that are built on or extend the. Sign in to vote.

We cannot determine why one machine works fine and the other doesn't. The bad machine has been rebuilt. This is in a test region. We also have the same setup going in production, which is working perfectly. This is an intermittent issue. After we rebuild the bad machine, the decryption works for a while, then fails.

It's almost like the user profile is disappearing. We've done some compares between the two machines but cannot see any significant difference. They are manually setup. We've exhausted our diagnostics. My opinion is that it is a configuration or environmental issue. Hello epaetz41, I wonder if you have solved your problem? If you have, what did you do to solve it? It seems like we are having the same problem with the same set-up.

We have two web servers win r2 and IIS 7. One web server is working fine but the other one is giving this error all the time. MessageSecurityException: Message security verification failed. This issue still exists in Windows R2, in shared hosted environment. Setting the parameter flag to UseMachineKeyStore. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Storm Storm 2, 3 3 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. Are you specifying the full path name to the file?

After specifying full path, it works So, thank you I think, this topic can be closed as non-constructive. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Did you set the following on the application pool in IIS? Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Thank you sir! I've been struggling with this error for months.

Having to restart the server or restarting the IIS in order to 'have time' before the error started appearing all over again. Oh my god. What an absurd error!! I tried checking and checking and couldn't find anything wrong with the file name.

Show 1 more comment. MachineKeySet ;. Salomon Arias Salomon Arias 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Duncan Smart Uncategorized January 26, 2 Minutes. I seemed to have everything in place but came up against the following error in a yellow screen of death: System.

CryptographicException: The system cannot find the file specified. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Published by Duncan Smart. Published January 26, If you have any comments on this, I would like to hear it. And Just want to add that this post helped us resolve our issue as well.