[Preview] Unable to restore packages from feeds with encrypted passwords on windows

[shadow-cs]

Describe the bug

After the recent update of VS Preview (I got the telemetry prompt earlier today), I'm not able to restore packages from feeds that use an encrypted password.

To Reproduce

• Make sure some password-protected feeds are registered and they use encrypted password
• Prepare a project that requests something from the feed
• Run dotnet nuget locals all --clear just in case to make sure the restore operation is needed
• Run dotnet restore

Exceptions (if any)

  Retrying 'FindPackagesByIdAsyncCore' for source 'https://nuget.xyz.com/repository/nuget-prod/FindPackagesById()?id='Package'&semVerLevel=2.0.0'.
  Password decryption is not supported on .NET Core for this platform. The following feed uses an encrypted password: 'repo-name'. You can use a clear text password as a workaround.
    Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) is not supported on this platform.

Detailed exception.

Further technical details

• Windows 10 21H2
• SDK 6.0.200-preview.21617.4

Workaround

Use global.json and downgrade to 6.0.100.

[shadow-cs]

I cannot tun VS 2022 Preview anymore fixed it, tried repairing the installation but I got an error that Microsoft.AspNetCore.TargetingPack.6.0.6.0.0-rtm.21526.8 cannot be installed. So I was wondering whether this could be related.

[cek-cek]

The same issue on multiple environments after today's update to 6.0.2 from stable channel.
One would expect that the platform sharing the same name with Windows Data Protection API would actually be supported 👀

[jasase]

We have the same problem. All projects currently not building on our OnPremise Build-Servers

[wazzamatazz]

We are also seeing this issue in our on-premises build servers using an authenticated TeamCity feed after installing VS 2022 17.1 build tools.

[m8ram]

I'm getting the same error after installing dotnet 6.0.2 via chocolatey (choco install dotnet-sdk).

[calebcartwright]

Same. Will add that we're seeing this behavior on Win Server 2016 environments, though doesn't seem like the issue occurs on Server 2022

[george-chakhidze]

In my case it is not even a feed password, it's http_proxy.password argument that is encrypted.

[Falco20019]

Same for us since updating to SDK 6.0.200 (not preview) on our development machines. When I switch back to 6.0.101 it works. Don't have 6.0.102 to test against (and don't want to install), so it definitely happened between 6.0.101 and 6.0.200.

[Falco20019]

/CC @sfoslund Since this might be related to the changes from #22251

[saurla]

I debugged this issue with dotnet restore -v diag command. Here is the most inner exception in the stack trace:

System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) is not supported on this platform.
    at System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.Unprotect(Byte[] encryptedData, Byte[] optionalEntropy, DataProtectionScope scope)
    at NuGet.Configuration.EncryptionUtility.DecryptString(String encryptedString)
    at NuGet.Configuration.PackageSourceCredential.get_Password()

So the problem seems to be the System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll. The dotnet installation contains the non platform specific version of the DLL at the root level (C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll). The implementation of this DLL just throws the System.PlatformNotSupportedException since the ProtectedData is only supported on Windows platform.

The Windows platform specific DLL is found under the runtimes directory (C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll).

For some reason the dotnet executable is using the non platform specific version of the DLL and not the Windows platform specific version.

I was able to workaround the issue by removing the non platform specific DLL at C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll. After this, the dotnet started using the correct one from C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll and restore started working again.

EDIT: Environment where I tested is Windows Server 2016.

[saurla]

I tried to troubleshoot this issue further using dotnet-trace tool to see how assembly loading goes. I traced the dotnet restore command using command dotnet-trace collect --providers Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime:4 -- dotnet restore. I first traced it with the dotnet version 6.0.200 which is not working and then with version 6.0.101 which is working. I noticed that the traces were quite much different. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with .NET assembly loading to make anything more useful out of this but maybe somebody can get something from this. I have filtered to show only the events that contain text ProtectedData.

Trace of not working version (6.0.200)

Event Name                                                    	Time MSec	Process Name        	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/KnownPathProbed	1,005.717	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" FilePath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\en-US\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources.dll" Source="SatelliteSubdirectory" Result="-2,147,024,894" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/KnownPathProbed	1,006.419	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" FilePath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\en\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources.dll" Source="SatelliteSubdirectory" Result="-2,147,024,894" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 

Event Name                                                        	Time MSec	Process Name        	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,003.293	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,004.110	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,004.297	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AssemblyLoadContextLoad" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="Success" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" ErrorMessage="" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,005.267	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,005.417	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AssemblyLoadContextLoad" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,005.567	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="Success" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" ErrorMessage="" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,005.772	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="ResolveSatelliteAssembly" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,005.825	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AssemblyLoadContextResolvingEvent" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,005.899	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AppDomainAssemblyResolveEvent" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,006.101	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,006.217	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AssemblyLoadContextLoad" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,006.472	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="ResolveSatelliteAssembly" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,006.525	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AssemblyLoadContextResolvingEvent" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	1,006.590	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AppDomainAssemblyResolveEvent" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 

Event Name                                          	Time MSec	Process Name        	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,003.231	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="NuGet.Configuration, Version=6.1.0.103, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,004.044	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" RequestingAssembly="System.Private.CoreLib, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="Default" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,004.427	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" ActivityID="/#3184/1/201/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,005.199	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,005.498	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,006.037	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	1,006.285	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/1/" 

Event Name                                         	Time MSec	Process Name        	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,004.228	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" DURATION_MSEC="0.184" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" RequestingAssembly="System.Private.CoreLib, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="Default" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,004.359	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="NuGet.Configuration, Version=6.1.0.103, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#3184/1/200/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,004.723	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" DURATION_MSEC="0.295" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="netstandard, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App\6.0.2\netstandard.dll" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#3184/1/201/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,005.634	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" DURATION_MSEC="0.135" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,005.955	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Success="False" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#3184/1/202/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,006.347	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" DURATION_MSEC="0.062" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Cached="True" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	1,006.645	Process(3184) (3184)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="3,424" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="3" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.resources, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.200\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #4" Success="False" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#3184/1/203/" 

Trace of working version (6.0.101)

Event Name                                                    	Time MSec	Process Name          	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/KnownPathProbed	  825.565	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" FilePath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Source="ApplicationAssemblies" Result="0" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/1/" 

Event Name                                                        	Time MSec	Process Name          	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	  824.507	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #5" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	  825.610	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="FindInLoadContext" AssemblyLoadContext="Default" Result="AssemblyNotFound" ResultAssemblyName="" ResultAssemblyPath="" ErrorMessage="Could not locate assembly" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	  825.656	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="ApplicationAssemblies" AssemblyLoadContext="Default" Result="Success" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" ErrorMessage="" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/ResolutionAttempted	  825.968	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" Stage="AssemblyLoadContextLoad" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #5" Result="Success" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" ErrorMessage="" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/" 

Event Name                                          	Time MSec	Process Name          	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	  824.456	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="NuGet.Configuration, Version=6.0.0.280, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #5" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #5" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Start	  825.161	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" RequestingAssembly="System.Private.CoreLib, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e" AssemblyLoadContext="Default" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="Default" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/1/" 

Event Name                                         	Time MSec	Process Name          	Rest  
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	  825.759	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" DURATION_MSEC="0.598" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" RequestingAssembly="System.Private.CoreLib, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e" AssemblyLoadContext="Default" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext="Default" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/1/" 
Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime/AssemblyLoader/Stop	  826.033	Process(18640) (18640)	HasStack="True" ThreadID="21,544" ProcessorNumber="0" ClrInstanceID="6" AssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" AssemblyPath="" RequestingAssembly="NuGet.Configuration, Version=6.0.0.280, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" AssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #5" RequestingAssemblyLoadContext=""MSBuild plugin C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\NuGet.Build.Tasks.dll" Microsoft.Build.Shared.MSBuildLoadContext #5" Success="True" ResultAssemblyName="System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" ResultAssemblyPath="C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.101\runtimes\win\lib\netstandard2.0\System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll" Cached="False" ActivityID="/#18640/1/291/" 

[billhenn]

This broke all our GitHub Actions jobs today after GitHub appeared to upgrade their .NET SDKs to use v6.0.200 instead of v6.0.101. We can no longer run our build scripts due to this exception.

I sure hope Microsoft and GitHub can get a bug fix out ASAP!