VB.NET Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

RSA Encrypt String to Binary Result and Reverse

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Demonstrates how to RSA encrypt a string to a binary result, and the reverse. VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = 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.
Dim pubKey As New Chilkat.PublicKey
'  In all Chilkat methods expecting a path, you pass either absolute or relative paths.
success = pubKey.LoadFromFile("qa_data/rsaKeys/myTestRsaPublic.pem")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(pubKey.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim rsa As New Chilkat.Rsa

'  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

'  Encrypt the utf-8 byte representation of the string.
rsa.Charset = "utf-8"

'  Be Careful when Using non-us-ascii String Literals in Source Code
Dim encBytes() As Byte
encBytes = rsa.EncryptString("Élève français dîne à côté d’un café où l’on sert déjà du gâteau au chocolat et des éclairs délicieux",False)

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

'  Load the matching 2048-bit RSA private key.
Dim privKey As New Chilkat.PrivateKey
Dim password As String = "secret"
success = privKey.LoadAnyFormatFile("qa_data/rsaKeys/myTestRsaPrivate.pem",password)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(privKey.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


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

'  Indicate that after decrypting the resultant decrypted bytes contains the utf-8 byte representation of the text.
rsa.Charset = "utf-8"
Dim originalText As String = rsa.DecryptString(encBytes,True)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(rsa.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("Original text = " & originalText)
Debug.WriteLine("Success.")