Re: Crypto.PublicKey.RSA.error: Plaintext too large

From: Peter Hansen (peter_at_engcorp.com)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:03:12 -0400

Ajay Brar wrote:

> Peter Hansen wrote:
>> Ajay Brar wrote:
>>> I am getting an error - Crypto.PublicKey.RSA.error: Plaintext too
>>> large - when verifying the signature of a document. ...
>>
>> Carriage Return/Line Feed problems? Or trailing newline problems?
>
> thats what i am going to investigate now. But even if there were
> trailing newline or carriage return characters, shouldn't the verify
> return false instead of giving the error.

I couldn't say, not having used that particular API. What does
the documentation say it should do? Always return just True or
False? Does it not make reference to this type of error?

-Peter

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