[ShannyMan]

First let me start by saying I'm primarily a .NET developer, I've been learning some Java and the RIM APIs for this only in the last few days.
I'm using the BlackBerry JDE, trying to encrypt a string using a RSA key that I generated with Visual Studio/C#. After a while, I realized that my modulus value when I converted it to a byte array didn't match the modulus byte array when looking at it through Visual Studio. This caused me a lot of headaches trying to figure it out.

Now, the issue I face is with inconsistencies with my byte array. I took all the values out of Visual Studio, put them into a CSV, and used that to create my array on the JDE. However, when looking at the arrays side-by-side, the values still don't match up. I had to cast all my values as a byte, e.g. 175 became (byte)175 while I was creating the array. But that value that shows as 175 on Visual Studio might show up as -66 within the JDE.

Does anyone have any insight on this? I've been at this for hours and can't seem to find anyone else who's taking a .NET RSA key and used it in JDE.

Thanks!

[Dougsg38p]

In Java, a byte is a signed value with a range -127 to +127.

Anything higher than 127 will show up as a negative number if you try to cast from a byte to (for example) an int. The sign bit is propagated to the int.

I think you should compare the byte arrays using hexidecimal notation, so that your 175 value is AF. I think that if you compare the arrays this way, they are probably the same.

[ShannyMan]

Thanks, I just tried that but it still doesn't seem to work. It doesn't throw any errors, but it doesn't perform the encryption. The out.size() always returns 0 and the string remains empty when copying it from the array. Here's my code:

public byte[] get_Modulus()
{
//TODO: Add support for storing it on file system
byte[] mod = new byte[] {(byte)0xB2,(byte)0x3F,(byte)0x70,(byte)0x16,(byte )0xAE,(byte)0x73,(byte)0x3E,(byte)0xD6,(byte)0x18, (byte)0x02,(byte)0x95,(byte)0x81,(byte)0xED,(byte) 0xA7,(byte)0xCD,(byte)0xD8,(byte)0x76,(byte)0xA2,( byte)0x00,(byte)0xA5,(byte)0x34,(byte)0x45,(byte)0 x0D,(byte)0xAD,(byte)0xD9,(byte)0xFA,(byte)0x20,(b yte)0xD7,(byte)0x1B,(byte)0xEE,(byte)0xA2,(byte)0x 4C,(byte)0x2B,(byte)0x33,(byte)0xD9,(byte)0xF9,(by te)0xA3,(byte)0xC5,(byte)0x10,(byte)0x62,(byte)0x6 6,(byte)0x3E,(byte)0x0D,(byte)0x7F,(byte)0x1D,(byt e)0x15,(byte)0x1E,(byte)0xD3,(byte)0xE2,(byte)0xFD ,(byte)0x84,(byte)0x46,(byte)0x1F,(byte)0x74,(byte )0x76,(byte)0x73,(byte)0x15,(byte)0x5C,(byte)0xA3, (byte)0x5E,(byte)0x9F,(byte)0x6E,(byte)0x61,(byte) 0x03,(byte)0xB4,(byte)0x31,(byte)0x5C,(byte)0xD2,( byte)0xDD,(byte)0xD1,(byte)0xB9,(byte)0x33,(byte)0 x76,(byte)0x92,(byte)0xE7,(byte)0xF0,(byte)0xCE,(b yte)0xB2,(byte)0xF3,(byte)0x8A,(byte)0xF2,(byte)0x 5F,(byte)0xFF,(byte)0xDD,(byte)0x1C,(byte)0x32,(by te)0x43,(byte)0x97,(byte)0x39,(byte)0x23,(byte)0x3 5,(byte)0xFC,(byte)0x78,(byte)0x5D,(byte)0xBE,(byt e)0x34,(byte)0x8C,(byte)0xD0,(byte)0xD8,(byte)0x99 ,(byte)0x09,(byte)0x1F,(byte)0x1A,(byte)0x4F,(byte )0xFF,(byte)0x2F,(byte)0x5A,(byte)0x8D,(byte)0x74, (byte)0x48,(byte)0x6B,(byte)0x13,(byte)0xF9,(byte) 0x59,(byte)0x1B,(byte)0x45,(byte)0x33,(byte)0xFF,( byte)0xF3,(byte)0x42,(byte)0x5C,(byte)0x41,(byte)0 x8D,(byte)0x5A,(byte)0xD4,(byte)0x2B,(byte)0xF5,(b yte)0x11};
return mod;
}

public byte[] get_Exponent()
{
byte[] exponent = new byte[] {(byte)1, (byte)0, (byte)1};
return exponent;
}

public String EncryptString(String pDecryptedData)
{
try
{
byte[] exponent = get_Exponent();
byte[] modulus = get_Modulus();

RSACryptoSystem crypto = new RSACryptoSystem(1024);

RSAPublicKey key = new RSAPublicKey(crypto, exponent, modulus);

NoCopyByteArrayOutputStream out = new NoCopyByteArrayOutputStream();

BlockEncryptor cryptoStream = new BlockEncryptor(new RSAEncryptorEngine(key), out);

byte[] plainText = pDecryptedData.getBytes();

cryptoStream.write(plainText, 0, plainText.length);

int finalLength = out.size();

byte[] cryptoText = new byte[finalLength];

System.arraycopy(cryptoText, 0, out.getByteArray(), 0, finalLength);

return new String(cryptoText);
}
catch (net.rim.device.api.crypto.InvalidKeyException e)
{
return "";
}
catch (java.lang.Exception e)
{
return "";
}