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Demystifying Cryptography with OpenSSL 3.0

You're reading from   Demystifying Cryptography with OpenSSL 3.0 Discover the best techniques to enhance your network security with OpenSSL 3.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560345
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: OpenSSL and Other SSL/TLS Libraries FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2: Symmetric Cryptography
4. Chapter 2: Symmetric Encryption and Decryption 5. Chapter 3: Message Digests 6. Chapter 4: MAC and HMAC 7. Chapter 5: Derivation of an Encryption Key from a Password 8. Part 3: Asymmetric Cryptography and Certificates
9. Chapter 6: Asymmetric Encryption and Decryption 10. Chapter 7: Digital Signatures and Their Verification 11. Chapter 8: X.509 Certificates and PKI 12. Part 4: TLS Connections and Secure Communication
13. Chapter 9: Establishing TLS Connections and Sending Data over Them 14. Chapter 10: Using X.509 Certificates in TLS 15. Chapter 11: Special Usages of TLS 16. Part 5: Running a Mini-CA
17. Chapter 12: Running a Mini-CA 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to decrypt with RSA programmatically

In this section, we are going to develop a small rsa-decrypt program, so that we can learn how to do RSA decryption.

Our program will take three command-line arguments similar to those taken by rsa-encrypt, but note that the third argument is the name of a file containing a keypair, not just a public key:

  1. The input filename
  2. The output filename
  3. The RSA keypair filename

Of course, now the input file is expected to contain ciphertext, which will be decrypted, and the resulting plaintext will be written into the output file.

Our high-level implementation plan for rsa-decrypt will contain the sequence of actions opposite to that of rsa-encrypt, listed as follows:

  1. Load an RSA keypair from the RSA keypair file. We need an RSA private key for decryption; a public key will not be enough.
  2. Create the EVP_PKEY context from the key.
  3. Initialize the EVP_PKEY context for decryption and set the OAEP padding mode...
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