RSA cryptography between Python and Java
Michael Ströder
michael at stroeder.com
Mon Jul 27 07:35:15 EDT 2009
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.
I'd use CMS (AKA PKCS#7) for encrypted/signed data with X.509 certs. One
should not invent another message format.
Ciao, Michael.
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Michael Ströder
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