Rob Knop wrote: > I've created an RSA key in Java. I have exported the public key by > making it into a X509EncodedKeySpec and spitting out the result of > getEncoded(). > > I want to use this public key to encode something in python that I will > send to Java, and then decode in Java with the corresponding private > key. > > Are there any python libraries that will take a public key in this > format and do RSA encoding on it?
M2Crypto will let you do this: http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooCrypto If you have access to the raw key data (instead of having it encoded in a X509 certificate), then you can also use PyCrypto, which does require setting up OpenSSL first: http://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/ -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 28 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list