problem in encryption

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> jayshree <jayshree06comp at gmail.com> (j) wrote:

>j> hello ,
>j> The community members,

>j> Using following code  :

>j> fileHandle = open ('jay1key.py','wb')
>j> #fileHandle = open ('jay1key.pem',rb).read()
>j> print fileHandle.write (data) #data variable is contains the key
>j> fileHandle.close()


>j> otp = 'jyshri69'


>j> pub_key = M2Crypto.RSA.load_pub_key('jay1key.py')

[Why do you give your key file a .py extension? .pem would be better.]

Your key in the next posting (when the broken lines are reconstructed)
seems to be in PKCS1 format. That's what -----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
indicates. However,  M2Crypto.RSA.load_pub_key expects the key in X.509
format, which starts with -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- and also has a
different format inside, so just changing the header and trailer won't
work. 

Anyway, I doubt that the key is correct as it seems to large for just a
public key. How was that key generated?
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