Could not create ssl tls secure channel windows 7

I finally found the answer (I haven’t noted my source but it was from a search);

While the code works in Windows XP, in Windows 7, you must add this at the beginning:

// using System.Net;
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
// Use SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3 if needed for compatibility reasons

And now, it works perfectly.

ADDENDUM

As mentioned by Robin French; if you are getting this problem while configuring PayPal, please note that they won’t support SSL3 starting by December, 3rd 2018. You’ll need to use TLS. Here’s Paypal page about it.

answered May 25, 2010 at 13:18

The solution to this, in .NET 4.5 is

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

If you don’t have .NET 4.5 then use

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType)3072;

answered Feb 22, 2018 at 14:46

Make sure the ServicePointManager settings are made before the HttpWebRequest is created, else it will not work.

Works:

ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls
       | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11
       | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12
       | SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://google.com/api/")

Fails:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://google.com/api/")

ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls
       | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11
       | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12
       | SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

Note: Several of the highest voted answers here advise setting ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol, but Microsoft explicitly advises against doing that. Below, I go into the typical cause of this issue and the best practices for resolving it.

One of the biggest causes of this issue is the active .NET Framework version. The .NET framework runtime version affects which security protocols are enabled by default.

• In ASP.NET sites, the framework runtime version is often specified in web.config. (see below)
• In other apps, the runtime version is usually the version for which the project was built, regardless of whether it is running on a machine with a newer .NET version.

There doesn’t seem to be any authoritative documentation on how it specifically works in different versions, but it seems the defaults are determined more or less as follows:

For the older versions, your mileage may vary somewhat based on which .NET runtimes are installed on the system. For example, there could be a situation where you are using a very old framework and TLS 1.0 is not supported, or using 4.6.x and TLS 1.3 is not supported.

Microsoft’s documentation strongly advises using 4.7+ and the system defaults:

We recommend that you:

• Target .NET Framework 4.7 or later versions on your apps. Target .NET Framework 4.7.1 or later versions on your WCF apps.
• Do not specify the TLS version. Configure your code to let the OS decide on the TLS version.
• Perform a thorough code audit to verify you’re not specifying a TLS or SSL version.

For ASP.NET sites: check the targetFramework version in your <httpRuntime> element, as this (when present) determines which runtime is actually used by your site:

<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />

Better:

<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.7" />

answered Oct 2, 2019 at 6:02

I had this problem trying to hit https://ct.mob0.com/Styles/Fun.png, which is an image distributed by CloudFlare on its CDN that supports crazy stuff like SPDY and weird redirect SSL certs.

Instead of specifying Ssl3 as in Simons answer I was able to fix it by going down to Tls12 like this:

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
new WebClient().DownloadData("https://ct.mob0.com/Styles/Fun.png");

After many long hours with this same issue I found that the ASP.NET account the client service was running under didn’t have access to the certificate. I fixed it by going into the IIS Application Pool that the web app runs under, going into Advanced Settings, and changing the Identity to the LocalSystem account from NetworkService.

A better solution is to get the certificate working with the default NetworkService account but this works for quick functional testing.

answered Dec 4, 2014 at 16:31

The error is generic and there are many reasons why the SSL/TLS negotiation may fail. The most common is an invalid or expired server certificate, and you took care of that by providing your own server certificate validation hook, but is not necessarily the only reason. The server may require mutual authentication, it may be configured with a suites of ciphers not supported by your client, it may have a time drift too big for the handshake to succeed and many more reasons.

The best solution is to use the SChannel troubleshooting tools set. SChannel is the SSPI provider responsible for SSL and TLS and your client will use it for the handshake. Take a look at TLS/SSL Tools and Settings.

Also see How to enable Schannel event logging.

answered May 18, 2010 at 18:14

The approach with setting

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12

Seems to be okay, because Tls1.2 is latest version of secure protocol. But I decided to look deeper and answer do we really need to hardcode it.

Specs: Windows Server 2012R2 x64.

From the internet there is told that .NetFramework 4.6+ must use Tls1.2 by default. But when I updated my project to 4.6 nothing happened.
I have found some info that tells I need manually do some changes to enable Tls1.2 by default

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/3140245/update-to-enable-tls-1-1-and-tls-1-2-as-default-secure-protocols-in-wi

But proposed windows update doesnt work for R2 version

But what helped me is adding 2 values to registry. You can use next PS script so they will be added automatically

Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:SOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoft.NetFrameworkv4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' -Value '1' -Type DWord
Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:SOFTWAREMicrosoft.NetFrameworkv4.0.30319' -Name 'SchUseStrongCrypto' -Value '1' -Type DWord

That is kind of what I was looking for. But still I cant answer on question why NetFramework 4.6+ doesn’t set this …Protocol value automatically?

answered Oct 28, 2019 at 20:58

Another possible cause of the The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel error is a mismatch between your client PC’s configured cipher_suites values, and the values that the server is configured as being willing and able to accept. In this case, when your client sends the list of cipher_suites values that it is able to accept in its initial SSL handshaking/negotiation «Client Hello» message, the server sees that none of the provided values are acceptable, and may return an «Alert» response instead of proceeding to the «Server Hello» step of the SSL handshake.

To investigate this possibility, you can download Microsoft Message Analyzer, and use it to run a trace on the SSL negotiation that occurs when you try and fail to establish an HTTPS connection to the server (in your C# app).

If you are able to make a successful HTTPS connection from another environment (e.g. the Windows XP machine that you mentioned — or possibly by hitting the HTTPS URL in a non-Microsoft browser that doesn’t use the OS’s cipher suite settings, such as Chrome or Firefox), run another Message Analyzer trace in that environment to capture what happens when the SSL negotiation succeeds.

Hopefully, you’ll see some difference between the two Client Hello messages that will allow you to pinpoint exactly what about the failing SSL negotiation is causing it to fail. Then you should be able to make configuration changes to Windows that will allow it to succeed. IISCrypto is a great tool to use for this (even for client PCs, despite the «IIS» name).

The following two Windows registry keys govern the cipher_suites values that your PC will use:

• HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftCryptographyConfigurationSSL0010002
• HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlCryptographyConfigurationLocalSSL0010002

Here’s a full writeup of how I investigated and solved an instance of this variety of the Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel problem: http://blog.jonschneider.com/2016/08/fix-ssl-handshaking-error-in-windows.html

answered Aug 31, 2016 at 4:33

Something the original answer didn’t have. I added some more code to make it bullet proof.

ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true;
        ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 9999;
        ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

answered Jun 1, 2016 at 15:05

The top-voted answer will probably be enough for most people. However, in some circumstances, you could continue getting a «Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel» error even after forcing TLS 1.2. If so, you may want to consult this helpful article for additional troubleshooting steps. To summarize: independent of the TLS/SSL version issue, the client and server must agree on a «cipher suite.» During the «handshake» phase of the SSL connection, the client will list its supported cipher-suites for the server to check against its own list. But on some Windows machines, certain common cipher-suites may have been disabled (seemingly due to well-intentioned attempts to limit attack surface), decreasing the possibility of the client & server agreeing on a cipher suite. If they cannot agree, then you may see «fatal alert code 40» in the event viewer and «Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel» in your .NET program.

The aforementioned article explains how to list all of a machine’s potentially-supported cipher suites and enable additional cipher suites through the Windows Registry. To help check which cipher suites are enabled on the client, try visiting this diagnostic page in MSIE. (Using System.Net tracing may give more definitive results.) To check which cipher suites are supported by the server, try this online tool (assuming that the server is Internet-accessible). It should go without saying that Registry edits must be done with caution, especially where networking is involved. (Is your machine a remote-hosted VM? If you were to break networking, would the VM be accessible at all?)

In my company’s case, we enabled several additional «ECDHE_ECDSA» suites via Registry edit, to fix an immediate problem and guard against future problems. But if you cannot (or will not) edit the Registry, then numerous workarounds (not necessarily pretty) come to mind. For example: your .NET program could delegate its SSL traffic to a separate Python program (which may itself work, for the same reason that Chrome requests may succeed where MSIE requests fail on an affected machine).

answered Jun 1, 2019 at 6:16

This one is working for me in MVC webclient

public string DownloadSite(string RefinedLink)
{
    try
    {
        Uri address = new Uri(RefinedLink);

        ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate { return true; };
        ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

        System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

        using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
        {
            var stream = webClient.OpenRead(address);
            using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                var page = sr.ReadToEnd();

                return page;
            }
        }

    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        log.Error("DownloadSite - error Lin = " + RefinedLink, e);
        return null;
    }
}

«The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel» exception can occur if the server is returning an HTTP 401 Unauthorized response to the HTTP request.

You can determine if this is happening by turning on trace-level System.Net logging for your client application, as described in this answer.

Once that logging configuration is in place, run the application and reproduce the error, then look in the logging output for a line like this:

System.Net Information: 0 : [9840] Connection#62912200 - Received status line: Version=1.1, StatusCode=401, StatusDescription=Unauthorized.

In my situation, I was failing to set a particular cookie that the server was expecting, leading to the server responding to the request with the 401 error, which in turn led to the «Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel» exception.

Another possibility is improper certificate importation on the box. Make sure to select encircled check box. Initially I didn’t do it, so code was either timing out or throwing same exception as private key could not be located.

answered Jul 11, 2012 at 22:27

I had this problem because my web.config had:

<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.2" />

and not:

<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1" />

answered Aug 15, 2017 at 10:47

Doing this helped me:

System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

answered Jan 26, 2021 at 22:39

Finally found solution for me.

Try this adding below line before calling https url (for .Net framework 4.5):

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

As you can tell there are plenty of reasons this might happen. Thought I would add the cause I encountered …

If you set the value of WebRequest.Timeout to 0, this is the exception that is thrown. Below is the code I had… (Except instead of a hard-coded 0 for the timeout value, I had a parameter which was inadvertently set to 0).

WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(@"https://myservice/path");
webRequest.ContentType = "text/html";
webRequest.Method = "POST";
string body = "...";
byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(body);
webRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
var os = webRequest.GetRequestStream();
os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
os.Close();
webRequest.Timeout = 0; //setting the timeout to 0 causes the request to fail
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse(); //Exception thrown here ...

answered Apr 25, 2014 at 20:50

The root of this exception in my case was that at some point in code the following was being called:

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;

This is really bad. Not only is it instructing .NET to use an insecure protocol, but this impacts every new WebClient (and similar) request made afterward within your appdomain. (Note that incoming web requests are unaffected in your ASP.NET app, but new WebClient requests, such as to talk to an external web service, are).

In my case, it was not actually needed, so I could just delete the statement and all my other web requests started working fine again. Based on my reading elsewhere, I learned a few things:

• This is a global setting in your appdomain, and if you have concurrent activity, you can’t reliably set it to one value, do your action, and then set it back. Another action may take place during that small window and be impacted.
• The correct setting is to leave it default. This allows .NET to continue to use whatever is the most secure default value as time goes on and you upgrade frameworks. Setting it to TLS12 (which is the most secure as of this writing) will work now but in 5 years may start causing mysterious problems.
• If you really need to set a value, you should consider doing it in a separate specialized application or appdomain and find a way to talk between it and your main pool. Because it’s a single global value, trying to manage it within a busy app pool will only lead to trouble. This answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26754917/7656 provides a possible solution by way of a custom proxy. (Note I have not personally implemented it.)

In my case, the service account running the application did not have permission to access the private key. Once I gave this permission, the error went away

1. mmc
2. certificates
3. Expand to personal
4. select cert
5. right click
6. All tasks
7. Manage private keys
8. Add the service account user

answered Nov 13, 2017 at 21:24

answered Feb 27, 2018 at 16:59

System.Net.WebException: The request was aborted: Could not create
SSL/TLS secure channel.

In our case, we where using a software vendor so we didn’t have access to modify the .NET code. Apparently .NET 4 won’t use TLS v 1.2 unless there is a change.

The fix for us was adding the SchUseStrongCrypto key to the registry. You can copy/paste the below code into a text file with the .reg extension and execute it. It served as our «patch» to the problem.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv4.0.30319]
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv4.0.30319]
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

answered Jul 26, 2018 at 14:35

I have struggled with this problem all day.

When I created a new project with .NET 4.5 I finally got it to work.

But if I downgraded to 4.0 I got the same problem again, and it was irreversable for that project (even when i tried to upgrade to 4.5 again).

Strange no other error message but «The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.» came up for this error

answered Dec 2, 2015 at 16:08

In case that the client is a windows machine, a possible reason could be that the tls or ssl protocol required by the service is not activated.

This can be set in:

Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Internet Options -> Advanced

Scroll settings down to «Security» and choose between

• Use SSL 2.0
• Use SSL 3.0
• Use TLS 1.0
• Use TLS 1.1
• Use TLS 1.2

answered May 10, 2017 at 7:05

I was having this same issue and found this answer worked properly for me. The key is 3072. This link provides the details on the ‘3072’ fix.

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType)3072;

XmlReader r = XmlReader.Create(url);
SyndicationFeed albums = SyndicationFeed.Load(r);

In my case two feeds required the fix:

https://www.fbi.gov/feeds/fbi-in-the-news/atom.xml
https://www.wired.com/feed/category/gear/latest/rss

None of the answers worked for me.

This is what worked:

Instead of initializing my X509Certifiacte2 like this:

   var certificate = new X509Certificate2(bytes, pass);

I did it like this:

   var certificate = new X509Certificate2(bytes, pass, X509KeyStorageFlags.MachineKeySet | X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet | X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable);

Notice the X509KeyStorageFlags.Exportable !!

I didn’t change the rest of the code (the WebRequest itself):

// I'm not even sure the first two lines are necessary:
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = true; 
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(string.Format("https://{0}.sii.cl/cvc_cgi/dte/of_solicita_folios", server));
request.Method = "GET";
request.Referer = string.Format("https://hercules.sii.cl/cgi_AUT2000/autInicio.cgi?referencia=https://{0}.sii.cl/cvc_cgi/dte/of_solicita_folios", servidor);
request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0";
request.ClientCertificates.Add(certificate);
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();

using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
    // etc...
}

In fact I’m not even sure that the first two lines are necessary…

answered Apr 30, 2019 at 17:58

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