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Public Private Key Encryption Example

Simple working example of public private key encryption

References

• Crypto Primer
• Cryptography/A Basic Public Key Example
• Toni Beardon - Public Key Cryptography
• Extended GCD algorithm (Extended Euclidean Algorithm)
• StackExchange - How does asymmetric encryption work?

Useful code

Creating the public and private key

int p = 17; // 1st large prime (larger)
int q = 13; // 2nd large prime
int pubKey1 = p*q;
int pubKey2 = 11;// < pubKey1 - 65537 is commonly used
int privKey = CalculateExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm(pubKey2, (p - 1) * (q - 1));

Encryption

var cipherText = BigInteger.Pow(input, pubKey2) % pubKey1;

Decryption

var plainText = (char)(BigInteger.Pow(cipherText, privKey) % pubKey1);