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RSAprivencrypt

RSAprivencrypt


Purpose
Encrypt a document using an RSA private key.
Synopsis
function RSAprivencrypt(kfile:string, src:string, dest:string):integer
Arguments
kfile 
File containing the private key
src 
Name of the file to encrypt
dst 
Name of the file to store the encrypted document
Return value
Length of the resulting document or -1 in the case of an error.
Further information
1. This function can be used to encrypt a document using an RSA private key (with PKCS1 as the padding algorithm). Decryption will be done using function RSApubdecrypt with the help of the corresponding RSA public key.
2. The algorithm used here cannot handle documents larger than (RSAgetkeysize(kfile)/8-11) bytes. It is usually used to generate a digital signature from a message digest.
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