I learned to put together different functions, convert them from a mathematical perspective to a programmer perspective, and produce a completely different output. I was required to know and understand every step of the algorithm in a detailed manner. To write this program, I needed to know how to write the algorithms for the Euler’s Totient, GCD, checking for prime numbers, multiplicative inverse, encryption, and decryption. Took me a bit of digging to figure those out, and the help of Stackoverflow.The below program is an implementation of the famous RSA Algorithm. If you don’t have those, you can calculate those first: how is described in Handling Partial RSA Private Keys. The RSAPrivateNumbers object, for example, wants not n and d, as you would expect, but p, q (from which it can calculate n), d, dmp1, dmq1, and iqmp. Python cryptography (well, probably the underlying OpenSSL) insists that RSAPrivateKey not only contains the necessary values as described above, but also some intermediate values that make calculations faster.They are used to access the components of the private and public keys: to get at them, if the Python module generated them, or to initialize the RSAPrivateKey and RSAPublicKey objects with certain numbers. There are companion classes RSAPrivateNumbers and RSAPublicNumbers, which have conversion functions to and from RSAPrivateKey and RSAPublicKey.There are convenience methods to convert them to and from common serialization formats.There are classes RSAPrivateKey and RSAPublicKey, which are what you think they are.Now, about the RSA implementation Python’s cryptography module (docs are here): To decrypt a cyphertext C, you calculate C ** d (mod n).To encrypt a (padded) message M, you calculate M ** e (mod n).In addition to the public key, you need d to make a private key.Together, n, and e are your public key.

You calculate d as a function of the other numbers.The number of digits in n is the length of the key.(Obviously it has to be hard to factor large numbers, if p and q need to remain secret.) e needs to be chosen so that a certain function (that indirectly depends on p and q) evaluates to 1.You need three numbers and calculate the rest.

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