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Daryl Spitzer
Daryl Spitzer

Reputation: 149324

How do I encrypt with an RSA private key read from a PEM file using the Go programming language?

How do I do the equivalent of the following C++ code in go?

RSA *key = PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey(f, NULL, NULL, NULL);
std::vector<CK_BYTE> out(128);
RSA_private_encrypt(in.size(), &in[0], &out[0], key, RSA_PKCS1_PADDING)

I've looked at the Go rsa package. It looks like EncryptPKCS1v15() may be the equivalent of RSA_private_encrypt(). But I don't see how to create a PrivateKey object other than with GenerateKey(), which (one can confirm by looking at the source) generates one using random prime numbers.

Do I need to figure out how to decode a PEM file so pull out the PrivateKey fields' values?

Update: The equivalent to the above C++ code in Python is:

from M2Crypto import RSA
rsa_private_key = RSA.load_key('privkey.pem')
encrypted = rsa_private_key.private_encrypt(digest, RSA.pkcs1_padding)

Is there an existing equivalent in Go?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1802

Answers (2)

President James K. Polk
President James K. Polk

Reputation: 41958

The equivalent function appears to be SignPKCS1v15. The function ParsePKCS1PrivateKey in the crypto/x509 package appears to be the closest to what you need to read in your existing private key, but I'm not sure the PEM format is exactly compatible, which it must be for this to work.

Upvotes: 1

cthom06
cthom06

Reputation: 9635

I think you may be looking for crypto/tls, not crypto/rsa.

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do here, but the tls package does have some functionality for reading PEM files.

Upvotes: 1

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