I'm using the following code to implement a basic RSA solution for encrypting and decrypting data, but when I try to encrypt any text that is longer than 87 characters I get an error saying Plaintext is too long from the file Crypto/Cipher/PKCS1_OAEP.py.
I read on other questions that RSA cannot encrypt and decrypt large sets of data but I'm not sure if that's true. If it is, what other options can I use to encrypt any amount of data?
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
from Crypto.Signature import PKCS1_v1_5
from Crypto.Hash import SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA, MD5
from Crypto import Random
from base64 import b64encode, b64decode
hash = "SHA-256"
def newkeys(keysize):
random_generator = Random.new().read
key = RSA.generate(keysize, random_generator)
private, public = key, key.publickey()
return public, private
def encrypt(message, pub_key):
cipher = PKCS1_OAEP.new(pub_key)
return cipher.encrypt(message)