Chilkat2-Python

Encrypt with Chilkat, Decrypt with OpenSSL

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Demonstrates how to RSA encrypt a string using Chilkat, and then shows the corresponding OpenSSL command to RSA decrypt. The OpenSSL command to decrypt is as follows:

openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey VP_Private.pem -in rsa_encrypted.bin -out original.txt

Chilkat2-Python

import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

rsa = chilkat2.Rsa()

# Note: RSA encryption uses the public key.  
# RSA decryption uses the private key.
# The reason is that the public key can be freely provided to anybody.  This allows anybody
# to send an encrypted message to the private key owner, and only the private key owner 
# can decrypt.
key = chilkat2.PublicKey()

# Load an RSA public key from a PEM file:
success = key.LoadFromFile("qa_data/pem/VP_Public.pem")
if (success == False):
    print(key.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Load the public key into the RSA object.
success = rsa.UsePublicKey(key)
if (success == False):
    print(rsa.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

strToEncrypt = "00000000;XYZ2-3BHQ-ABCD-MMVV;6MY1-GHJK-9LRR;0"

# The LittleEndian property is False by default, but it is set here
# anyway to show that LittleEndian byte ordering is required for OpenSSL compatibility.
rsa.LittleEndian = False

usePrivateKey = False

# encryptedBytes is a memoryview
encryptedBytes = rsa.EncryptString(strToEncrypt,usePrivateKey)
if (rsa.LastMethodSuccess == False):
    print(rsa.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# The OpenSSL command to decrypt would be this:
# openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey VP_Private.pem -in rsa_encrypted.bin -out original.txt

fac = chilkat2.FileAccess()
success = fac.WriteEntireFile("qa_output/rsa_encrypted.bin",encryptedBytes)
if (success == False):
    print(fac.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("RSA Encryption Succeeded.")