Publish-PSResource Run Under Windows Powershell Tries to Load .NET Core Assembly

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Steps to reproduce

Manually trying the method outlined by @dbrennand in his last comment an another issue using Windows Powershell (5.1), I got a new error with PowerShellGet 3.0.17:

PS> Publish-PSResource -Credential $cred -Repository RepName -Path .\path\to\module.psd1
Publish-PSResource : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file
specified.
At line:1 char:1
+ Publish-PSResource -Credential $cred -Repository RepoName -Path .\path\to...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidResult: (:) [Publish-PSResource], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PushNupkgError,Microsoft.PowerShell.PowerShellGet.Cmdlets.PublishPSResource

The type appeared as though it was available on my system as I could use the accelerators to do tab-completion of methods on the referenced type. Looking into my GAC, it looked like the PublicKeyToken was associated with a different version of the System.Security assembly:

Directory: C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Security\2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----        2021-05-12      3:31         274432 System.Security.dll

Searching further for 'PowerShellGet' and 'System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData' revealed an unrelated issue which indicated that there's a .NET Core assembly named 'System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.dll'. This gave a hint that Publish-PSResource/PowerShellGet was maybe trying to load the .NET Core assembly (which I don't have installed).

With that in mind, I installed PowerShell 7.2 and ran Publish-PSResource from there, successfully publishing the module without issue.

Expected behavior

PS> Publish-PSResource -Credential (get-secret PSRepository) -Repository Repo -Path .\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\moduleName\moduleName.psd1 -Verbose
Vault SecretStore requires a password.
Enter password:
*************************
VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Publish-PSResource" on target "Publish resource 'C:\Users\user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\moduleName\moduleName.psd1' from the machine".
VERBOSE: Creating new nuspec file.
VERBOSE: The newly created nuspec is: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\64d5dc26-f293-40ae-8ba6-79a3dc2a760d\moduleName.nuspec
VERBOSE: Successfully packed the resource into a .nupkg
VERBOSE: Successfully published the resource to '<nuget feed URI>'
VERBOSE: Deleting temporary directory 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\64d5dc26-f293-40ae-8ba6-79a3dc2a760d'

Actual behavior

PS> Publish-PSResource -Credential (get-secret PSRepository) -Repository Repo -Path .\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\moduleName\moduleName.psd1 -Verbose
Vault SecretStore requires a password.
*************************
VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Publish-PSResource" on target "Publish resource
'C:\Users\user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\moduleName\moduleName.psd1' from the machine".
VERBOSE: Creating new nuspec file.
VERBOSE: The newly created nuspec is:
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\f0ae87df-1c0c-4b97-aaa3-dc60418caca5\moduleName.nuspec
VERBOSE: Searching in repository Repo
VERBOSE: credential successfully set for repository: Repo
VERBOSE: Successfully packed the resource into a .nupkg
Publish-PSResource : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file
specified.
At line:1 char:1
+ Publish-PSResource -Credential (get-secret PSRepository) -Repository  ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidResult: (:) [Publish-PSResource], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PushNupkgError,Microsoft.PowerShell.PowerShellGet.Cmdlets.PublishPSResource

VERBOSE: Deleting temporary directory 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\f0ae87df-1c0c-4b97-aaa3-dc60418caca5'

Error details

Publish-PSResource : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData, Version=4.0.2.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file
specified.
At line:1 char:1
+ Publish-PSResource -Credential (get-secret PSRepository) -Repository  ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidResult: (:) [Publish-PSResource], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PushNupkgError,Microsoft.PowerShell.PowerShellGet.Cmdlets.PublishPSResource

Environment data

ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------
Binary     3.0.17     powershellget                       {Find-PSResource, Get-PSResource, Get-PSResourceRepository...
Script     2.2.5      PowerShellGet                       {Find-Command, Find-DscResource, Find-Module, Find-RoleCap...

Key   : PSVersion
Value : 5.1.19041.1682
Name  : PSVersion


Key   : PSEdition
Value : Desktop
Name  : PSEdition


Key   : PSCompatibleVersions
Value : {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
Name  : PSCompatibleVersions


Key   : BuildVersion
Value : 10.0.19041.1682
Name  : BuildVersion


Key   : CLRVersion
Value : 4.0.30319.42000
Name  : CLRVersion


Key   : WSManStackVersion
Value : 3.0
Name  : WSManStackVersion


Key   : PSRemotingProtocolVersion
Value : 2.3
Name  : PSRemotingProtocolVersion


Key   : SerializationVersion
Value : 1.1.0.1
Name  : SerializationVersion

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