cryptrsa: RSA CLI and library

A small Rust CLI/library that demonstrates RSA primitives for learning, and provides secure flows using OAEP (encryption), PSS (signing), and a hybrid RSA+AES-GCM scheme for large files.

Highlights

• Raw RSA primitives (BigUint) for teaching and simple demos
• Chunked raw RSA file encryption with a length header
• RSA-OAEP (SHA-256) encryption/decryption with PEM keys
• RSA-PSS (SHA-256) signing/verification with PEM keys
• Hybrid RSA+AES-256-GCM for large files
• JSON keypair I/O for raw RSA; PEM I/O for OAEP/PSS
• Clean CLI plus a usable library API

Installation

cargo install cryptrsa

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/neuralsorcerer/cryptrsa

cd cryptrsa

cargo build

Quick start (raw RSA, JSON keys)

• Generate JSON keypair:

  cryptrsa gen --bits 2048 --out keypair.json --public-out public.json
  
  

• Encrypt/Decrypt a short UTF-8 message (must be numerically < n):

  cryptrsa encrypt --key public.json --message "hello"
  
  
  cryptrsa decrypt --key keypair.json --ciphertext BASE64
  
  

• Encrypt/Decrypt arbitrary files with raw RSA chunking:

  cryptrsa encrypt-bytes --key public.json --in-file input.bin --out-file cipher.b64
  
  
  cryptrsa decrypt-bytes --key keypair.json --in-file cipher.b64 --out-file output.bin --base64
  
  

Secure modes (PEM keys)

• Generate PEM keys (PKCS#8 private, SPKI public):

  cryptrsa gen-pem --bits 2048 --private-out private.pem --public-out public.pem
  
  

• RSA-OAEP (SHA-256) encryption/decryption:

  cryptrsa encrypt-oaep --public-pem public.pem --in-file msg.bin --out-file ct.b64
  
  
  cryptrsa decrypt-oaep --private-pem private.pem --in-file ct.b64 --out-file msg.bin
  
  

• RSA-PSS (SHA-256) signing/verification:

  cryptrsa sign-pss --private-pem private.pem --in-file msg.bin --sig-out sig.b64
  
  
  cryptrsa verify-pss --public-pem public.pem --in-file msg.bin --sig-file sig.b64
  
  

Hybrid RSA + AES-GCM (recommended for large files)

• Encrypt: AES-256-GCM for data, RSA-OAEP for the AES key. Output is JSON with base64 fields enc_key, nonce, ct.

  cryptrsa encrypt-hybrid --public-pem public.pem --in-file large.bin --out-file package.json
  
  

• Decrypt:

  cryptrsa decrypt-hybrid --private-pem private.pem --in-file package.json --out-file large.bin
  
  

CLI reference (subcommands)

• gen: Generate a JSON keypair; optionally write public part separately
• encrypt / decrypt: Raw RSA for short messages (as base64)
• sign / verify: Raw RSA signing; use --hash to sign SHA-256(msg)
• fingerprint: Print SHA-256 fingerprint of a public key (e||n)
• encrypt-bytes / decrypt-bytes: Raw RSA for arbitrary files (chunked); decrypt supports --base64
• info: Print basic info (type, bits, e, n)
• pubout: Extract public key JSON from a keypair JSON
• gen-pem: Generate RSA PEM keys
• encrypt-oaep / decrypt-oaep: RSA-OAEP (SHA-256) with PEM
• sign-pss / verify-pss: RSA-PSS (SHA-256) with PEM
• encrypt-hybrid / decrypt-hybrid: Hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM for large files

Library usage (examples)

• Raw RSA keygen and encrypt/decrypt:

use cryptrsa::{RSAKeyPair, encrypt, decrypt};
use num_bigint::BigUint;

let kp = RSAKeyPair::generate(1024);
let m = BigUint::from(42u32);
let c = encrypt(&m, &kp.e, &kp.n);
let p = decrypt(&c, &kp.d, &kp.n);
assert_eq!(m, p);

• OAEP/PSS with PEM:

use cryptrsa::RsaOaep;

let kp = RsaOaep::generate(2048)?;
let ct = kp.encrypt(b"secret")?;
let pt = kp.decrypt(&ct)?;
assert_eq!(pt, b"secret");
let sig = kp.sign_pss(b"msg")?;
assert!(kp.verify_pss(b"msg", &sig)?);

• Hybrid AES-GCM:

use cryptrsa::crypto::hybrid::{gen_random_key, encrypt_aes_gcm, decrypt_aes_gcm};
let key = gen_random_key();
let (ct, nonce) = encrypt_aes_gcm(&key, b"data")?;
let pt = decrypt_aes_gcm(&key, &ct, &nonce)?;
assert_eq!(pt, b"data");

Security notes

• Prefer OAEP/PSS and the hybrid mode for any real use. Raw RSA (no padding) is for learning and is not CCA-secure.
• AES-GCM uses a random 96-bit nonce from the OS RNG; never reuse nonces with the same key.
• Always keep private keys secure; PEM files are written in plaintext by default.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.