Sybren A. Stüvel

I think the majority of users of this library actually do the opposite: try to use a binary encryption package, and defer to python-rsa when that's not available.

You make a good point, as usual :+1:

@adamantike what's your progress so far? I'd love to be able to release 4.0 in the coming month or so. Do you think that's feasible?

> I can start working on OAEP, and hopefully there'll be some progress before next weekend. That would be awesome :) > Is there any other goal for 4.0 that...

Thanks for pointing this out!

Good comments, thanks.

@RichardThiessen thanks for the FIPS 186-4 reference. I'm working on an implementation. It's working pretty well, except the multiplication by `sqrt(2)` is problematic, as for 4096-bit keys it's no longer...

7c2468e76c9b1e22f9e1c5fb48025e4c9623bb6a on branch https://github.com/sybrenstuvel/python-rsa/tree/issue-98-fips-186-4-prime-selection implements the FIPS 186-4 recommendation for lower & upper bounds on p & q, and on a minimum distance |p-q|. @joostrijneveld and @RichardThiessen I'd appreciate your...

Thanks for the heads-up! I'll see about releasing 4.1 before that time then, and then this can go into 4.2.

The short answer: they are different key formats, and you can't just remove the 'RSA' string. Having said that, the keys aren't all that different, and I think adding support...