RSA with PyCrypto

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Wed Dec 11 19:07:38 EST 2002


On 11 Dec 2002 23:47:47 +0100, 
	Tommy Lindgren <tomyltomyl at linuxlinux.nu> wrote:
> Aha, okay. I think my confusion (about the exchange of public keys)
> was due to my wish that the receiver can verify the sender. I guess
> this is done by providing a hash signature in the message (as shown
> in the RSA example in the documentation).

You could do that, or A could sign it with their private key.
Something like:

msg = 'blah blah'
signed_msg = privkeyA.sign(msg)
encrypted_msg = pubkeyB.encrypt(msg, '')

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