Does libgcrypt provide pkcs1 unpadding functionality?

[Daiki Ueno]

Daiki Ueno <ueno at unixuser.org> writes:

>> In the libgcrypt doco, it specifies that you can define an
>> s-expression that allows for the data to be padded in PKCS#1 before
>> being encrypted. Is there a another function or another expression I
>> could build to unpad the data after it has been decrypted or is there
>> some other work around to do this?
>
> The current git master supports "unpad" flag (it was introduced along
> with OAEP padding support yesterday).  The document should be updated I
> guess...will try to do.

Oh, sorry, with the current code the "unpad" flag only works with OAEP.
I'm attaching a patch to support it with PKCS#1.  You could take a look
at check_pubkey_crypt in tests/basic.c for the usage.

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BTW, perhaps it might be good to factor out PKCS#1 encode logic to a
separate function as well.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno