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Re: question about rsa encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sidney Markowitz)
Mon Feb 3 16:22:26 2003
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From: "Sidney Markowitz" <sidney@sidney.com>
To: "crypto mailing list" <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:12:41 +1300
Scott G. Kelly <scott@bstormnetworks.com> wrote:
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that there is some issue
> with directly encrypting data with an
> RSA public key, perhaps some vulnerability
The short answer is that you should use one of the standard padding modes
that are designed for RSA encryption, usually OAEPPadding. There are
subtleties that the paddings are designed to take into to account, and if
you use the padding you don't need to know all of them.
-- sidney
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