Javascript - Python RSA encryption interoperability

Evren Esat Ozkan sleytr at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 08:48:50 EDT 2008


Hi,

Thank you very much. Your code is worked like a charm and saved my
honeymoon :)

Thanks again,
Evren


On Jul 4, 6:19 pm, marek.ro... at wp.pl wrote:
> Evren Esat Ozkan napisa³(a):
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> > Hello,
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> > I'm trying to encrypt a string with RSA. But it needs to be compitable
> > with Dave's JavaScript RSA implementation*. I'm already read and tried
> > lots of different things about RSA and RSA in Python. But could not
> > produce the same result with the javascript library.
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> > My experiments could be seen at:http://dpaste.com/hold/60741/
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> > * JavaScript RSA Library:http://www.ohdave.com/rsa/
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> > Python libraries which I tried;
> > * PyCrtypo:http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html
> > * rsa library fromhttp://www.stuvel.eu/rsa
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> > How could I create the same results with the JS library in Python.
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> > Any help would be appreciated
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> > Evren,
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> It seems that this Javascript is doing weird things to its input,
> namely processing it in reverse. Try encrypting ciphertext[::-1]
> instead of just ciphertext.
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> public_modulus_hex = '9F2E..snip..4BC7'
> public_exponent_hex = '10001'
> public_modulus = int(public_modulus_hex, 16)
> public_exponent = int(public_exponent_hex, 16)
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> def encrypt(plaintext_text):
>         # Beware, plaintext must be short enough to fit in a single block!
>         plaintext = int(plaintext_text.encode('hex'), 16)
>         ciphertext = pow(plaintext, public_exponent, public_modulus)
>         return '%X' % ciphertext # return hex representation
>
> print encrypt('12345')
> print encrypt('12345'[::-1]) # Will return the value compatible with
> JS output
>
> Regards,
> Marek




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