RSA cryptography between Python and Java

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Michael Ströder <michael at stroeder.com> (MS) wrote:

>MS> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>> Please note that the text to be encrypted must be smaller than the key
>>> size (at least 11 bytes smaller). You shouldn't encrypt large data with
>>> RSA anyway: it is too slow. Normally you would encrypt a session key
>>> with RSA and encrypt the data with the session key using a symmetric
>>> algorithms like AES.

>MS> I'd use CMS (AKA PKCS#7) for encrypted/signed data with X.509 certs. One
>MS> should not invent another message format.

Yes but the original question was not about X.509 certs. Just the RSA
public key. I don't know what the OP wants to do with it.
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