RSA cryptography between Python and Java

[Michael Ströder]

Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> Please note that the text to be encrypted must be smaller than the key
> size (at least 11 bytes smaller). You shouldn't encrypt large data with
> RSA anyway: it is too slow. Normally you would encrypt a session key
> with RSA and encrypt the data with the session key using a symmetric
> algorithms like AES.

I'd use CMS (AKA PKCS#7) for encrypted/signed data with X.509 certs. One
should not invent another message format.

Ciao, Michael.

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