Decrypting “long” message encrypted with RSA java

Question

Hi this is the same question, that was asked two years ago: Java/JCE: Decrypting “long” message encrypted with RSA

I had a large byte array and rsa keypair, initiate

Answer 1

If you do need to encrypt/decrypt long strings using RSA, then you can break the bytes up in to smaller "chunks" and process each chunk of bytes through the cipher one at a time while storing the results in a ByteBuffer.

Encryption:

byte[] encData = null;
try {

    // create public key
    X509EncodedKeySpec publicKeySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(key);
    KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
    PublicKey pk = kf.generatePublic(publicKeySpec);

    Cipher pkCipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding");
    pkCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, pk);

    int chunkSize = 117; // 1024 / 8 - 11(padding) = 117
    int encSize = (int) (Math.ceil(data.length/117.0)*128);
    int idx = 0;
    ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(encSize);
    while (idx < data.length) {
        int len = Math.min(data.length-idx, chunkSize);
        byte[] encChunk = pkCipher.doFinal(data, idx, len);
        buf.put(encChunk);
        idx += len;
    }

    // fully encrypted data     
    encData = buf.array();
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();

Decryption

Cipher rsaCipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding");
rsaCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, rsaPk);

int chunkSize = 128;
int idx = 0;
ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(data.length);
while(idx < data.length) {
    int len = Math.min(data.length-idx, chunkSize);
    byte[] chunk = rsaCipher.doFinal(data, idx, len);
    buf.put(chunk);
    idx += len;
}

// fully decrypted data
byte[] decryptedData = buf.array();