ezPyCrypto encryption using only public key problem.

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Sun Jun 15 16:21:47 EDT 2003


Adrian wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that when encrypting a message using only just a public key
> I get an exception:
> 
> _fastmath.error: Private key not available in this object
> 
> So I did a little digging around in ezPyCrypto.py and saw that when
> encrypting a message it does some sort of decryption verification.
> As far as I know, you can't decrypt without a public/private key pair.
> 
> As a side note, I tried using the ezPyCrypto examples that show
> encrypting a message with only the public key imported (example3.py),
> and they fail to.

I encountered the same issue (at least with the example #3) so I
just commented out the offending (and apparently unnecessary) line
in the source and carried on...  My guess was that it was left
there from development debugging or something.

-Peter




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