Java Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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.

*** The reason this occurs is that RSA encryption uses PKCS1 v1.5 padding, and this padding scheme uses random bytes. It is random bytes in the padding that causes the result to be different each time.

Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.PrivateKey;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.PublicKey;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Rsa;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        Rsa rsa = new Rsa();

        String pubKeyXml = "<RSAPublicKey><Modulus>xxyv1RDPU0MvfFIIa98HppXdcuI7zSu8uIqyGAy/VoxPvxZFX0acajznvjVRHipHbpcO6ryo2LwXUPf89qOqLb3Qd1lfD2ZnH+TQ6MZXNxfFRxTpTUd+tTR4EBYpd2t6kzq8ZRJYLdlviaMQQqUEwR54k7Op5HJYVKUcHIkP1xE=</Modulus><Exponent>AQAB</Exponent></RSAPublicKey>";

        String privKeyXml = "<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>";

        PublicKey pubKey = new PublicKey();
        try {
            pubKey.loadFromString(pubKeyXml);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        PrivateKey privKey = new PrivateKey();
        try {
            privKey.loadXml(privKeyXml);

            rsa.usePublicKey(pubKey);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // Encrypt a string and return the encrypted data base64-encoded:
        rsa.setEncodingMode("base64");

        String plainText = "RSA gives different results with each call, weird but OK";

        boolean usePrivateKey = false;
        String encryptedStr1 = rsa.encryptStringENC(plainText, usePrivateKey);
        System.out.println(encryptedStr1);

        // Do it again. The results are different...
        String encryptedStr2 = rsa.encryptStringENC(plainText, usePrivateKey);
        System.out.println(encryptedStr2);

        // Now decrypt both strings, and the results are correct
        // in both cases:
        Rsa rsa2 = new Rsa();
        try {
            rsa2.usePrivateKey(privKey);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(rsa.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        rsa2.setEncodingMode("base64");
        usePrivateKey = true;

        String decryptedStr1 = rsa2.decryptStringENC(encryptedStr1, usePrivateKey);
        System.out.println(decryptedStr1);

        String decryptedStr2 = rsa2.decryptStringENC(encryptedStr2, usePrivateKey);
        System.out.println(decryptedStr2);
    }
}