[erlang-questions] crypto rsa encryption

[Trevor Woollacott]

> It really works.
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Sergei Fomin
>
> trevorw@REDACTED wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get rsa encryption with crypto module. With PKCS1 padding
>>> scheme it works ok, but 'rsa_no_padding' option makes
>>> crypto:rsa_public_encrypt to raise:
>>> ** exception error: encrypt_failed.
>>>
>>> My system:
>>> otp: R13B03, R13B04, R14B
>>> Ubuntu 9.10
>>> OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
>>>
>>> Any ideas what the problem is?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergei Fomin
>>>
>>
>> Hi Sergei
>>
>> With RSA_NO_PADDING the size of your input needs to be exactly the same
>> size as your RSA key, otherwise you need to add padding yourself.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Trevor
>>
>>
>>
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Ok, great:) Just a note: if you aren't using one of the usual
cryptographic padding schemes and you use RSA_NO_PADDING, then you still
need to implement some other secure padding scheme in your application
code to make sure that your encrypted value is secure.

Regards,
Trevor