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RSA Encrypt and Decrypt Credit Card Numbers

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_LANGUAGE_ sample code to RSA public-key encrypt and decrypt credit card numbers. The RSA key is loaded from an unencrypted PKCS8 file. Chilkat provides many ways of setting the key -- loading from both encrypted and unencrypted PEM, PKCS8, DER, PVK, etc. Keys may be loaded from files or in-memory representations. (The RSA component also provides the ability to generate RSA keys.) Unicode C

#include <C_CkRsaW.h>
#include <C_CkPrivateKeyW.h>
#include <C_CkPublicKeyW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRsaW rsa;
    HCkPrivateKeyW privKey;
    HCkPublicKeyW pubKey;
    const wchar_t *ccNumber;
    BOOL usePrivateKey;
    const wchar_t *encryptedStr;
    HCkRsaW rsaDecryptor;
    const wchar_t *decryptedStr;

    success = FALSE;

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

    rsa = CkRsaW_Create();

    privKey = CkPrivateKeyW_Create();

    // Load an RSA private key from a file:
    success = CkPrivateKeyW_LoadAnyFormatFile(privKey,L"rsaPrivateKey.key",L"");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkPrivateKeyW_lastErrorText(privKey));
        CkRsaW_Dispose(rsa);
        CkPrivateKeyW_Dispose(privKey);
        return;
    }

    // Get the public part of the private key.
    pubKey = CkPublicKeyW_Create();
    CkPrivateKeyW_ToPublicKey(privKey,pubKey);

    success = CkRsaW_UsePublicKey(rsa,pubKey);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRsaW_lastErrorText(rsa));
        CkRsaW_Dispose(rsa);
        CkPrivateKeyW_Dispose(privKey);
        CkPublicKeyW_Dispose(pubKey);
        return;
    }

    // Encrypt a VISA credit card number:
    // 1234-5678-0000-9999
    ccNumber = L"1234567800009999";

    usePrivateKey = FALSE;
    CkRsaW_putEncodingMode(rsa,L"base64");
    encryptedStr = CkRsaW_encryptStringENC(rsa,ccNumber,usePrivateKey);
    wprintf(L"Encrypted:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",encryptedStr);

    // Now decrypt:
    rsaDecryptor = CkRsaW_Create();

    CkRsaW_putEncodingMode(rsaDecryptor,L"base64");
    CkRsaW_UsePrivateKey(rsaDecryptor,privKey);

    usePrivateKey = TRUE;
    decryptedStr = CkRsaW_decryptStringENC(rsaDecryptor,encryptedStr,usePrivateKey);

    wprintf(L"Decrypted:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",decryptedStr);

    // Important: RSA encryption should only be used to encrypt small amounts of data.
    // It is typically used for encrypting symmetric encryption
    // keys such that a symmetric encryption algorithm, such as 
    // AES is then used to encrypt/decrypt bulk data


    CkRsaW_Dispose(rsa);
    CkPrivateKeyW_Dispose(privKey);
    CkPublicKeyW_Dispose(pubKey);
    CkRsaW_Dispose(rsaDecryptor);

    }