Hi All, I have a client server application where the client is developed in Objective-C on MAC platform and the server application in Java. The client is supposed to generates an RSA key pair and send the public key to the server. The server inturn uses the public key to encrypt some secure data and sent it to client for it to decrypt using it's private key.
I plan to use OpenSSL for the generation of the asymmetric key pair ( I could not find any native api's in OSX for this purpose). But the only problem that I currently face is that the key pair generated by OpenSSL has headers and footers of the form -----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY----- -----END RSA PUBLIC KEY----- for public key likewise there is similar header and footer for private key as well. The server whose implementation I dont control accepts only the key part and I need to clip of the headers and footers before sending the raw public key to the server. On receiving the data encrypted with the public key, when I try to decrypt the data using the private key pair, the decryption fails. (This could be because I had stripped the header and footer of the public key and with this, they are no longer public/private key pairs hence the decryption fails). Is there a mechanism by which I can generate an RAS Public/Private Key pair without the header and footer?. Alternatively, if i have an valid public/private key pair previously generated using OpenSSL, can I stripping of the header and footer and then using the key pair to generate an RSA object? With this I believe I can easily decrypt using the private key as the public key used to encrypt would not have had the header/footer. Or is there an better alternative to resolve the issue that I am facing? Thanks & Regards. -- View this message in context: http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/RSA-encryption-decryption-with-OpenSSL-tp46234.html Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
