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Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:50:01 -0400
Teh Kao Yang writes:
> Does anyone know if there is any available libraries out there that can
> do RSA public-key-type of encryption for data? Basically I need to
> RSA encrypt some bulk data with a private key. I looked at the
> RSAREF and Microsoft Crypto API libraries, and they all have a lot of
> functions supporting encryption, signing, and lots more.. but for some
> reason they just don't suppor this one functionality I'm looking for...
Other things being equal, encrypting and (especially) decrypting with
public-key systems such as RSA is usually slower than encrypting/decrypting
with a secret-key ("symmetric") system such as DES. So it is common to
establish a secret key via a public-key technique, then use a symmetric
cipher for the bulk data encryption/decryption.
> I'm sorry if this is a really dumb question, but I'm just starting out
> with crypto programming and didn't know where else to look for advice...
A couple of recent recommended books are:
_Applied Cryptography_ by Bruce Schneier
(see <http://www.counterpane.com/applied.html>)
_Handbook of Applied Cryptography_ by Alfred Menezes, Paul van
Oorschot, and Scott Vanstone
(see <http://www.dms.auburn.edu/hac/>)
Hope this helps
--
Lewis http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lmccarth/
"There's no such thing as a winnable war; it's a lie we don't believe any more"
--Sting, "Russians"
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