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What length should the padding be when encrypting or signing with RSA?
Does it matter what length the padding is? If so - what length should it be?
(Another point: Should it be random?)
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Why hash or salt when signing?
I've seen an example of how to sign using RSA. Besides the signing itself (s = m^d mod n) it also hashes and adds an IV.
Why is that needed?
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Encrypting small values with RSA private key
I'm looking for best practices when it comes to encrypting small (< 128 bytes) amounts of data with the RSA private key. Signing it would make the resulting payload too large.
