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unable to use OAEP decryption in python

Here’s my code: Here’s the error I get: What am I doing wrong? I’m running Python 3.8.3. Answer The mgfunc parameter (3rd parameter) for the mask generation function is incorrectly specified in the posted code. According to the description of Crypto.Cipher.PKCS1_OAEP.new(): mgfunc (callable)…

Cannot decode encrypted rsa message python3

I’m encoding a message with rsa.encrypt but then I cannot convert the encrypted data to a str with .decode(). That’s a bit strange because the encrypted data is a bytes string and there shouldn’t be any problem converting that to a str. data = [self.id, data, self.my_pubkey] # actually don&#…