Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Demonstrate RSA Encrypt/Decrypt using BinData

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Demonstrates how to RSA encrypt and decrypt data contained in a Chilkat BinData object. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  The RSA public key is used for encryption, and the private key for decryption.

#  The public key's role is to make encryption accessible to anyone while ensuring that
#  only the private key holder can decrypt the messages.
#  The public key is designed to be widely distributed so anyone can use it to encrypt messages
#  intended for the owner of the private key.

#  Load our 2048-bit RSA public key.
pubKey = Chilkat::CkPublicKey.new()
#  In all Chilkat methods expecting a path, you pass either absolute or relative paths.
success = pubKey.LoadFromFile("rsaKeys/myTestRsaPublic.pem")
if (success == false)
    print pubKey.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

rsa = Chilkat::CkRsa.new()

#  Tell RSA to use the public key.
rsa.UsePublicKey(pubKey)

#  RSA encryption is for small amounts of data, on the order of 200 bytes or less.
#  The maximum number of bytes that can be RSA encrypted depends
#  on the RSA key size and padding scheme (OAEP padding vs PKCS#1 v1.5 padding).
#  For specific limits, see: RSA Encryption Maximum Number of Bytes

#  Create some binary data to encrypt.
bd = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
i = 0
for i in 0 .. 49
    bd.AppendByte(i)
end

#  Show the bytes to be encrypted in hex format:
print "To be encrypted: " + bd.getEncoded("hex") + "\n";

#  To be encrypted: 000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F101112131415161718191A1B1C1D1E1F202122232425262728292A2B2C2D2E2F3031

#  RSA encrypt the contents of the bd, replacing the contents with the RSA encrypted data.
rsa.EncryptBd(bd,false)

#  Now it is encrypted.
print "Encrypted size = " + bd.get_NumBytes().to_s() + "\n";
print bd.getEncoded("hex") + "\n";

#  Encrypted size = 256
#  749ED9D0A8767C06C09AD9697F654F86B145F966722F9714902C4175BDBD02E68984ECF111D4D461
#  EDB4A8E677D399D19CCA60F35C6DE9972F4262880FE9D77DB75915393E8E7DB80AAB5E383013FAEB
#  60C77D1E6FECC9A7C8426976416C6218FE7DA998EE063CE709E79C240F8625F4A56A0A33AFD63F7A
#  BA26F2A692B42E878C53B78602C725FE63FF961A46A2B9D436E5E3D9D64AE3F1D1F5AD5F5B47FCD69
#  447306B77F2FD6D766CCAA1A110A3371586B43DF0D7FFE2220D1B305CF9371AC342F849FB0C90CD99E
#  C176928D877FE1C0DE1A7CB6EB824FEC7E1DCF90EF2C6BA9F1DFD3EBFBE89C51AF074DC6AE02E544A78
#  5018C36D3D48B2EF5202AF61AC

#  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Let's decrypt, which requires the matching private key...

#  Load the matching 2048-bit RSA private key.
privKey = Chilkat::CkPrivateKey.new()
password = "secret"
success = privKey.LoadAnyFormatFile("rsaKeys/myTestRsaPrivate.pem",password)
if (success == false)
    print privKey.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Tell the RSA object to use the private key.
rsa.UsePrivateKey(privKey)

#  Decrypt
success = rsa.DecryptBd(bd,true)
if (success == false)
    print rsa.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Examine the contents of bd to see if it now contains the unencrypted original data.
print "Decrypted: " + bd.getEncoded("hex") + "\n";

#  Decrypted: 000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F101112131415161718191A1B1C1D1E1F202122232425262728292A2B2C2D2E2F3031