RSA Encrypt and Decrypt Credit Card Numbers

PHP 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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<?php

$rsa = new COM("Chilkat.Rsa");

$success = $rsa->UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial');
if ($success != true) {
    print $rsa->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$key = new COM("Chilkat.PrivateKey");

//  Load an RSA private key from a PKCS8 file:
$success = $key->LoadPkcs8File('rsaPrivateKey.p8');
if ($success != true) {
    print $key->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Get the key as XML:

$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) {
    print $rsa->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Encrypt a VISA credit card number:
//  1234-5678-0000-9999
$ccNumber = '1234567800009999';

$usePrivateKey = false;
$rsa->EncodingMode = 'base64';
$encryptedStr = $rsa->encryptStringENC($ccNumber,$usePrivateKey);
print 'Encrypted:' . "\n";
print $encryptedStr . "\n";

//  Now decrypt:
$rsaDecryptor = new COM("Chilkat.Rsa");

$rsaDecryptor->EncodingMode = 'base64';
$rsaDecryptor->ImportPrivateKey($keyXml);

$usePrivateKey = true;
$decryptedStr = $rsaDecryptor->decryptStringENC($encryptedStr,$usePrivateKey);

print 'Decrypted:' . "\n";
print $decryptedStr . "\n";

//  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.

?>