Blog Post

IIS Support Blog
1 MIN READ

"the specified file cannot be decrypted" and error code "0x80071771" when renew certificate

JasonXu's avatar
JasonXu
Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
Jan 09, 2019
Error "the specified file cannot be decrypted" and error code "0x80071771" when renew certificate for web site. This usually is caused by Machine Key cannot be accessed and so the certificate cannot ...
Published Jan 09, 2019
Version 1.0
jacco1635's avatar
jacco1635
Copper Contributor
May 09, 2023

I received the same error when opening a pdf with Adobe.  To fix the problem, enhanced security needed to be unselected in adobe preferences