How To Pad Data in RSA: Meet PCKS#1 v1.5
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3 min readAug 21, 2022
Many of the methods we have for encryption are based on PKCS (Public Key Cryptography Standards) documents. These were defined by RSA Security in the 1990s but have since become standards within RFC documents.
In symmetric key encryption, we use PKCS#5 (Cryptographic Message Syntax) padding. This fills a block with a value which equals the number of bytes to be padding. But, in RSA, we do not…
