RE: how to verify if the public_key is valid to decrypt data using RSA_public_decrypt()

2008-11-18 Thread Dave Thompson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun R. Sent: Monday, 17 November, 2008 18:50 I'm using RSA to encrypt/decrypt some text. I encrypt the data using the private key and then decrypt it using RSA_public_decrypt(). One thing i This is not really encryption, because it does not provide

RE: how to verify if the public_key is valid to decrypt data using RSA_public_decrypt()

2008-11-17 Thread David Schwartz
I'm using RSA to encrypt/decrypt some text. I encrypt the data using the private key and then decrypt it using RSA_public_decrypt(). One thing i noticed was that if the data was not encrypted using the correct private key that RSA_public_decrypt() will just set the output to giberish. Is