perl-openssl-users

[Perl-openssl-users] Public keys cannot decrypt messages.

[Emmanuel S. <es...@li...>]

I'm using Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA to decrypt what I'm told is data encrypted
with the private key of an RSA pair. However creating an
Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA object with the public key and using the encrypt
function wields :

Public keys cannot decrypt messages. at ./request.pl line 54.

Can anybody explain this to me ?

Emmanuel

Re: [Perl-openssl-users] Public keys cannot decrypt messages.

[Ian R. <ia...@re...>]

Emmanuel,

Try using the public_decrypt decrypt function.

  - Ian

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 18:13 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> I'm using Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA to decrypt what I'm told is data encrypted
> with the private key of an RSA pair. However creating an
> Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA object with the public key and using the encrypt
> function wields :
> 
> Public keys cannot decrypt messages. at ./request.pl line 54.
> 
> Can anybody explain this to me ?
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
> 
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Re: [Perl-openssl-users] Public keys cannot decrypt messages.

[Emmanuel S. <es...@li...>]

Ian Robertson wrote:
>
> Try using the public_decrypt decrypt function.

Thanks, Ian.

That + a call to use_pkcs1_padding() did it.

Emmanuel