.NET Private Key Rsa Encryption

Question

I need to encrypt a string using an RSA 1.5 algorithm. I have been provided with a private key. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to add this key to the class. It seems as tho the key needs to be of type RSAParameter stuct. However this requires a set of values I have not been given such as Modulus, Exponent, P, Q, etc.. All I have is the private key. Can anyone help?

What do you have for the key obviously, you may not want to supply it verbatim but can you describe it some more? — Jodrell, May 17 '11 at 11:19
Post what you have tried. I suspect you simply do not understand how RSA works to be honest. I don't know what classes your using exactly so I cannot advise. Read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181421/is-possible-to-encrypt-with-private-key-using-net-rsacryptoserviceprovider — Security Hound, May 17 '11 at 11:25
The key I have been provided looks like -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----MIIadfdafCXdfawIBAAKBgQCIgynd6pvlCF= -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----jaz+wadfadIDAQAB -----END PUBLIC KEY----- This is all I have.. — Steve Kiss, May 17 '11 at 11:29

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '11 at 01:28

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You should be aware of the Bouncycastle C# library. There are in particular two very useful classes: Org.BouncyCastle.OpenSsl.PemReader which will convert from the openssl style key you have to a bouncycastle key object, and Org.BouncyCastle.Security.DotNetUtilities, which will convert a bouncycastle key to a .NET RSAParameters object.

Here is a tiny bit of untested code that shows how to use it

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using Org.BouncyCastle.OpenSsl;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Security;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters;

namespace RSAOpensslToDotNet
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("../../privatekey.pem");
            PemReader pr = new PemReader(sr);
            AsymmetricCipherKeyPair KeyPair = (AsymmetricCipherKeyPair)pr.ReadObject();
            RSAParameters rsa = DotNetUtilities.ToRSAParameters((RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters)KeyPair.Private);
        }
    }
}

answered May 18 '11 at 01:28

President James K. Polk

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I've been looking in a lot of places for exactly this... Thanks! – MattyP Aug 16 '12 at 16:49
I need this exact thing to be done in Java. When I use the pr.readObject() it is returning PEMKeyPair and throwing an exception when I cast it to AsymmetricCipherKeyPair. I cannot figure out why for the life of me. Please help! – C0D3 Apr 04 '13 at 22:12
Raises an InvalidCastException for me. – mikerobi Sep 28 '14 at 21:12
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@mikerobi: Are you sure your keyfile contains a private key? – President James K. Polk Sep 28 '14 at 21:42
for those using Bouncy Castle under Linux/Docker: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/issues/160 – monty Sep 12 '19 at 07:07

Akram Shahda · Answer 2 · 2011-05-17T11:42:51.123

I guess that is what are you looking for:

    // Import ASymmetric RSA Key from a system file.
    public static RSAParameters ImportRSAKey(String fileName)
    {

        // Create a stream to a the specified system file.
        Stream fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

        // Extract/Deserialize the key from the file.
        IFormatter soapFormatter = new SoapFormatter();            
        RSAParameters rsaParameter = 
           (RSAParameters) soapFormatter.Deserialize(fileStream);

        // Close the file stream.
        fileStream.Close();

        return rsaParameter;

    }

To generate a new key, you can use RSACryptoServiceProvider.ExportParameters method.

Refer to the following:

RSAParameters Structure

.NET Private Key Rsa Encryption

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