Hi, I have created RSA key as well as its subkey for encryption using GnuPG. Now I encrypted a file using JAVA library functions given by Bouncy Castle (a pgp library in JAVA which claims to adhere to rfc 2440). I also encrypted the same file using the GnuPG commands from command line. The following are the results of the pgpdump for both of them...........
PGPdump for GnuPG:------ PGPdump Results <font size="4">Old: Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 1)(140 bytes) New<br>version(3) Key ID - 0xB84434E8A6EACCA8 Pub alg - RSA Encrypt or<br>Sign(pub 1) RSA m^e mod n(1024 bits) - 88 74 a9 7c bb 85 c6 1d 19 82 55<br>ec 72 86 93 4d 74 52 94 a4 c1 e7 9f bd b9 9d 8c 82 da 08 d1 db 71 09 4f<br>de 40 77 16 95 7f 52 14 11 23 c0 61 68 61 eb 43 c7 80 ac 6b 36 df 65 99<br>e7 f8 14 78 1f d7 3f 18 41 10 aa 5e df 59 a2 eb 49 39 c2 d6 4a a8 be 07<br>fe 9a ae 7b 95 2e 90 e1 30 3f 47 9c bb 96 f1 1d 17 9b 6b 6c a6 5b 4d 57<br>f0 fa de 6b c9 51 aa 36 e6 81 87 3d c0 ff c6 b6 5b 8c 66 6d 1f -&gt; m<br>= sym alg(1 byte) + checksum(2 bytes) + PKCS-1 block type 02<br>New: Symmetrically Encrypted and MDC Packet(tag 18)(<span style="background-color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">168 bytes</span>) Ver 1<br>Encrypted data [sym alg is specified in pub-key encrypted session key]<br>(plain text + MDC SHA1(20 bytes))</font><br> PGPdump for BouncyCastle:-------------- PGPdump Results <font size="4">Old: Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 1)(140 bytes) New<br>version(3) Key ID - 0xB84434E8A6EACCA8 Pub alg - RSA Encrypt or<br>Sign(pub 1) RSA m^e mod n(1024 bits) - af db e9 49 ce f1 f5 d5 c1 ab a3<br>59 39 f2 a6 6e 05 2f 99 9d 79 87 cf 19 3a 9f ad 15 da 8d 83 ee a9 36 72<br>c3 23 42 33 70 2f 40 69 03 2f 9c 18 44 bb 20 b2 5c 5e 09 fd ad c4 16 61<br>39 07 a1 a7 ab 1d 0c 06 69 d5 81 8d 2c 65 ae 89 b6 db 5d e0 5e 4d 6e d8<br>ae 7b f1 3b f1 52 a3 52 24 a0 55 2c 43 47 66 cd 92 a1 3e c5 c2 38 4c 02<br>5d e6 59 bf b3 6d 09 a0 9b cc 63 46 ec 7a cf f6 7f 62 f9 1a 86 -&gt; m<br>= sym alg(1 byte) + checksum(2 bytes) + PKCS-1 block type 02<br>New: Symmetrically Encrypted and MDC Packet(tag 18)(<span style="background-color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">155 bytes</span>) Ver 1<br>Encrypted data [sym alg is specified in pub-key encrypted session key]<br>(plain text + MDC SHA1(20 bytes))<br></font> I am also attaching the encrypted files...... When I use GnuPG to decrypt the file encrypted using Bouncy Castle Libraries, the file gets decrypted correctly. But if I use Bouncy Castle to decrypt the file encrypted using GnuPG, I get an exception stating illegal key size. The following is the stacktrace for the program. org.bouncycastle.openpgp.PGPException: Exception starting decryption java.security.InvalidKeyException: *Illegal key size * at javax.crypto.Cipher.a(Unknown Source) at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(Unknown Source) at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(Unknown Source) at org.bouncycastle.openpgp.PGPPublicKeyEncryptedData.getDataStream(Unknown Source) at org.bouncycastle.openpgp.PGPPublicKeyEncryptedData.getDataStream(Unknown Source) at bouncyCastlePGP.BcDecrypt.decrypt_bc(BcDecrypt.java:130) The statement giving exception is supposed to give a decrypted stream using the secret key. But the same decryption program using Bouncy Castle decrypts correctly the file encrypted using Bouncy Castle libraries. The only difference I could observe in the dumps of both the files is the packet size of New packet(tag 18).(Highlighted) Can that make a difference? Plz help me ..... or is it that GnuPG donot follow the rfc2440?? Thanks, ------------------ Bhushan.
encrypted_using_GnuPG.txt.gpg
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encrypted_using_BouncyCastle.txt.gpg
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