Randomly thrown "Invalid RSAES-OAEP padding." error with a valid key

[marckong]

We are using the forge package for password based authentication, which randomly throws the "Invalid RSAES-OAEP padding." error with an actually VALID password. What could be the potential cause for this?

Found a similar issue that is still not resolved (despite it being encryption related) - https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/issues/621

[marckong]

cc: @subnetmarco

[chanzxxx]

I'm facing exact same problem. It is occuring if I have any character which is not an alphabet in source text. That is what I figured until now.

[chanzxxx]

Problem solved. Had to call forge.util.encodeUtf8 before pass it to encrypt function. Like below

pk.encrypt(forge.util.encodeUtf8(text), 'RSA-OAEP');