RSA Encryption -- Same Key Different Results

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The RSA encryption algorithm produces different results for each call, even when encrypting the same data with the same key. Decryption however, will produce the correct results. This example demonstrates.

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LOCAL loRsa
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lcPublicKey
LOCAL lcPrivateKey
LOCAL lcPlainText
LOCAL lnUsePrivateKey
LOCAL lcEncryptedStr1
LOCAL lcEncryptedStr2
LOCAL loRsa2
LOCAL lcDecryptedStr1
LOCAL lcDecryptedStr2

loRsa = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rsa')

lnSuccess = loRsa.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX("RSA component unlock failed")
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  RSA public key in XML format:

lcPublicKey = "<RSAKeyValue><Modulus>xxyv1RDPU0MvfFIIa98HppXdcuI7zSu8uIqyGAy/VoxPvxZFX0acajznvjVRHipHbpcO6ryo2LwXUPf89qOqLb3Qd1lfD2ZnH+TQ6MZXNxfFRxTpTUd+tTR4EBYpd2t6kzq8ZRJYLdlviaMQQqUEwR54k7Op5HJYVKUcHIkP1xE=</Modulus><Exponent>AQAB</Exponent></RSAKeyValue>"

lcPrivateKey = "<RSAKeyValue><Modulus>xxyv1RDPU0MvfFIIa98HppXdcuI7zSu8uIqyGAy/VoxPvxZFX0acajznvjVRHipHbpcO6ryo2LwXUPf89qOqLb3Qd1lfD2ZnH+TQ6MZXNxfFRxTpTUd+tTR4EBYpd2t6kzq8ZRJYLdlviaMQQqUEwR54k7Op5HJYVKUcHIkP1xE=</Modulus><Exponent>AQAB</Exponent><P>4cpW9fvG99Jsz8/AO7PDHTl+pPRAglksrR2kClLV2g9DEeFe/bvmCxLUgMCJ+0eGQ1zA6aA7McKr13zTQ7jKpQ==</P><Q>4cCS/kFlq/P1ExF37Fkh4pCodOEGutepLEG7Q/KljT3ZGlAY+2l8fGu4f+hrkUuGoFl7NOMaJflULoPIgQaq/Q==</Q><DP>lkjcSsvzqh3YKRXJiLNkyf3rypV8noYGU4+oEOsDxilkZfFRDafUPUiiQrRk4ui/d/SzvozU+ZDuWfaOk8PatQ==</DP><DQ>SYCD25i7W8Mwdibn3uIecEAdOQDTSh5RjIFSUYs9b8FFYJXXrHPp/jCsf6jS7RmkGa1Iui1/JAIL8KEjtS7QmQ==</DQ><InverseQ>EDAJa3TpNdPQ3GIdBpnTgFTQY5A60DcszsUW/iCYoXQdPVJ9BLBxVTe9jiLzGuNuzLkVBwQlCy0Bf84hACRV9A==</InverseQ><D>cMFdDYKkddlRNczaugOmOH8b1egpx2liSPs6GYZ2gFObAXJiPK8m+r6c2ckls7hrlUP0DZhi4cG6Tn7xANb0Ek17P7QquVhQYOmFy/YHzm+IJbcwwq7pJHhZBhtcjyXqfUZ+BADGE//GQbrSVwVltpOj5KcxG88NAprLn2MMxfE=</D></RSAKeyValue>"

loRsa.ImportPublicKey(lcPublicKey)

*  Encrypt a string and return the encrypted data base64-encoded:
loRsa.EncodingMode = "base64"

lcPlainText = "RSA gives different results with each call, weird but OK"

lnUsePrivateKey = 0

lcEncryptedStr1 = loRsa.EncryptStringENC(lcPlainText,lnUsePrivateKey)
? lcEncryptedStr1

*  Do it again. The results are different...

lcEncryptedStr2 = loRsa.EncryptStringENC(lcPlainText,lnUsePrivateKey)
? lcEncryptedStr2

*  Now decrypt both strings, and the results are correct
*  in both cases:
loRsa2 = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rsa')
loRsa2.ImportPrivateKey(lcPrivateKey)
loRsa2.EncodingMode = "base64"
lnUsePrivateKey = 1

lcDecryptedStr1 = loRsa2.DecryptStringENC(lcEncryptedStr1,lnUsePrivateKey)
? lcDecryptedStr1

lcDecryptedStr2 = loRsa2.DecryptStringENC(lcEncryptedStr2,lnUsePrivateKey)
? lcDecryptedStr2