R: PKI encryption/decryption functions

PKI.crypt {PKI} | R Documentation

## PKI encryption/decryption functions

### Description

`PKI.encrypt` encrypts a raw vector

`PKI.decrypt` decrypts a raw vector

### Usage

    PKI.encrypt(what, key, cipher = NULL)
    PKI.decrypt(what, key, cipher = NULL)

### Arguments

`what` | raw vector to encrypt/decrypt. It must not exceed the key size minus padding
`key` | key to use for encryption/decryption
`cipher` | cipher to use for encryption/decryption

### Value

Raw vector (encrypted/decrypted)

### Note

The cipher is optional for key objects that already contain the cipher information such as RSA keys (in fact it is ignored in that case).

Supported symmetric ciphers are AES-128, AES-256 and BF (blowfish). Each cipher can be used in CBC (default), ECB or OFB modes which are specified as suffix, so `"aes256ofb"` would specify AES-256 in OFB mode. Case and non-alphanumeric characters are ignored, so the same could be specified as `"AES-256-OFB"`. PKCS padding is used to fill up to the block size. Analogously, PKCS padding is expected when decoding.

Note that the payload for RSA encryption should be very small since it must fit into the key size including padding. For example, 1024-bit key can only encrypt 87 bytes, while 2048-bit key can encrypt 215 bytes. Therefore a typical use is to use RSA to transfer a symmeric key to the peer and subsequently use symmetric ciphers like AES for encryption of larger amounts of data.

### Author(s)

Simon Urbanek

### See Also

`PKI.genRSAkey`, `PKI.pubkey`

### Examples

      key <- PKI.genRSAkey(2048)
      x <- charToRaw("Hello, world!")
      e <- PKI.encrypt(x, key)
      y <- PKI.decrypt(e, key)
      stopifnot(identical(x, y))
      print(rawToChar(y))

      ## AES symmetric - use SHA256 to support arbitrarily long key strings
      key <- PKI.digest(charToRaw("hello"), "SHA256")
      ae <- PKI.encrypt(x, key, "aes256")
      ae
      ad <- PKI.decrypt(ae, key, "aes256")
      stopifnot(identical(x, ad))

[Package PKI version 0.1-3 Index]