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Practice Activity of Cryptography

This document outlines a practice activity for applying RSA encryption and decryption using public key cryptography. It details the steps to generate a 1024-bit private/public key pair, encrypt a confidential message using a business partner's public key, and then decrypt it using the private key. The activity emphasizes the importance of confidentiality and the role of public and private keys in secure communication.

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Practice Activity of Cryptography

This document outlines a practice activity for applying RSA encryption and decryption using public key cryptography. It details the steps to generate a 1024-bit private/public key pair, encrypt a confidential message using a business partner's public key, and then decrypt it using the private key. The activity emphasizes the importance of confidentiality and the role of public and private keys in secure communication.

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Practice activity – RSA Encryption/Decryption

In this practice activity, you will apply your knowledge of public key
cryptography to securely transmit a sensitive piece of information from your
company to a business partner. You will first generate a private/public key. You
will then encrypt some text using the public key of your business partner and
subsequently decrypt it (acting as the business partner) using the private key.

RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is one of the most popular asymmetric (public


key) cryptographic algorithms. RSA supports several different key sizes
including 1024, 2048 and 4096 bits.

Resources:

• Text to Encrypt: “This is a confidential sentence that needs to be encrypted”


• Public Key Cryptography Algorithm to be used: RSA

• Key length: 1024 bits


• RSA Key Generator and Encrypt/Decrypt:

Online: https://www.javainuse.com/rsagenerator

Step 1

Please generate a 1024-bit private/public key pair based on RSA and save both
the private and public keys. Please note that this step would normally be
performed by your business partner, and they will only share their public key
with your company.

Step 2

Please encrypt the text “This is a confidential sentence that needs to be


encrypted” using the public key of your business partner and save the
generated ciphertext.

Step 3 Acting as the business partner, please decrypt the ciphertext that you
generated in Step 2 using the private key and verify if the message contents
match the original text.

Solution on next page.


Solution:

Step 1

Acting as the business partner, we first generate a 1024-bit private/public key


pair.

Online: https://www.javainuse.com/rsagenerator

Step 2:-We provide the plaintext and use the public key to encrypt it. Online:
https://www.javainuse.com/rsagenerator
Please note this in this case, we are using the public key of our business
partner to encrypt so that no one else can decrypt it except for our business
partner who has the private key. As discussed in the lecture, the public key
cannot be used again to decrypt the message which was encrypted with the
public key.

Step 3
Assuming we are the business partner, we provide the ciphertext and use the
private key to decrypt it.

Online: https://www.javainuse.com/rsagenerator

As a practice activity, you can try decrypting the ciphertext using the public
key, but you will see that it will not give us the correct output and will display
error, thus ensuring the confidentiality of the message and providing assurance
that only the destination with the private key can decrypt the message.

Congratulations! You have successfully generated RSA key pairs as well as seen
public key cryptography in action.

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