Thanks for answer, Chris.
I understand that slow RSA algorithm is not used to encrypt large amounts of
data, instead of it symmetric algorithms are used.
But is it the limit of RSA-algorithm or only OpenSSL library's limit?
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From: Chris Dodd
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:36 PM
Roughly keysize - paddingsize is the limit. keysize in your case is 512
bytes and padding size for OAEP padding (the common standard) is ~41, so
the limit is about 471 bytes.
Usually when encrypting a file, you use a symmetric cipher with a
randomly chosen key, and then encrypt the key with RSA and prepend that
to the encrypted file.
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