I am hoping that this question can be met with some guidance for someone who is beginning to work with encryption/decryption in C#. There are existing examples on the web regarding this, but I am truthfully struggling to put it all into practice for my given situation.
If given a text file that has been encrypted using OpenPGP with RSA, what is the best method to decrypt this in C#?
This is what I am attempting:
- Using Kleopatra OpenPGP, I am generating a key pair using 2048bit RSA. This generates a private and public key.
- I am then encrypting/signing a text file with a few word in it as a test.
- In C#, I want to decrypt this text file.
Current code:
byte[] encryptedData = File.ReadAllBytes("C:\\PGP Encryption\\test.txt.gpg"); // The encrypted text file generated by Kleopatra.
using (RSACryptoServiceProvider RSA = new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
{
//Import the RSA Key information. This needs
//to include the private key information.
RSA.ImportParameters(RSAKeyInfo);
//Decrypt the passed byte array and specify OAEP padding.
decryptedData = RSA.Decrypt(DataToDecrypt, DoOAEPPadding);
}
return decryptedData;
Unfortunately, the RSA.Decrypt() call throws an exception that reads "The data to be decrypted exceeds the maximum for this modulus of 128 bytes."
I also do not believe that my private key is actually being loaded, as I'm not explicitly stating where the key is. But I don't see how the RSAParameters object is supposed to get populated otherwise.
If anyone can point me in the right direction to decrypt a file in this way, thank you in advance for your time and information.
