(Xojo Plugin) RSA Encrypt and Decrypt Credit Card Numbers

Xojo Plugin 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.)

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

Dim rsa As New Chilkat.Rsa

Dim key As New Chilkat.PrivateKey

// Load an RSA private key from a file:
Dim success As Boolean
success = key.LoadAnyFormatFile("rsaPrivateKey.key","")
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(key.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Get the key as XML:
Dim keyXml As String
keyXml = key.GetXml()

// We'll encrypt with the public key and decrypt with the private
// key.  (It's also possible to do the reverse.)
// Note: An RSA private key is composed of different parts internally: modulus, exponent, P, Q, etc.
// An RSA public-key is a sub-set of the private key.
// Therefore, when you have a private key, you really have
// both public and private keys.
success = rsa.ImportPublicKey(keyXml)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(rsa.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Encrypt a VISA credit card number:
// 1234-5678-0000-9999
Dim ccNumber As String
ccNumber = "1234567800009999"

Dim usePrivateKey As Boolean
usePrivateKey = False
rsa.EncodingMode = "base64"
Dim encryptedStr As String
encryptedStr = rsa.EncryptStringENC(ccNumber,usePrivateKey)
System.DebugLog("Encrypted:")
System.DebugLog(encryptedStr)

// Now decrypt:
Dim rsaDecryptor As New Chilkat.Rsa

rsaDecryptor.EncodingMode = "base64"
success = rsaDecryptor.ImportPrivateKey(keyXml)

usePrivateKey = True
Dim decryptedStr As String
decryptedStr = rsaDecryptor.DecryptStringENC(encryptedStr,usePrivateKey)

System.DebugLog("Decrypted:")
System.DebugLog(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