Piet van Oostrum wrote: > Please note that the text to be encrypted must be smaller than the key > size (at least 11 bytes smaller). You shouldn't encrypt large data with > RSA anyway: it is too slow. Normally you would encrypt a session key > with RSA and encrypt the data with the session key using a symmetric > algorithms like AES.
I'd use CMS (AKA PKCS#7) for encrypted/signed data with X.509 certs. One should not invent another message format. Ciao, Michael. -- Michael Ströder E-Mail: mich...@stroeder.com http://www.stroeder.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
