Internet Explorer Was Unable to Import This Certificate

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The 128-bit Internet Explorer Upgrade installs the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) certificate provider. With the RSA certificate provider, you can import high grade digital certificates into Internet Explorer in PFX format.

You can import only 512-bit key (low grade) digital certificates into Internet Explorer.

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Note that this behavior can also occur if a previously exported 1024-bit key (high-grade) is improperly imported into a different system.

When this occurs, the 128-bit Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is not registered as the default provider. When you try to import the 1024-bit certificate onto a 1024-bit system, it does not work because it is trying to make a call to the default 512-bit base (exportable) provider, which does not accept strong cryptographic key sizes (>512 bit).

To correct this problem, change the following registry key:

This behavior can also occur if the user key for the certificate you are trying to import already exists in the following registry key: To work around this behavior, delete the appropriate user key in the above registry key.