Unsupported state or unable to authenticate data

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I can’t decrypt this string. I encrypted a string with the following key, which I read from a file using fs and encoding utf-8. Then I tried to decrypt it and got the error in the image below.

My Key: attention, the key below has an empty line at the end

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Encrypted String: 92df937f687b10f8c3c4ff6629bec84a0a5acfb9ba76243ee9d24e81a9b005394028740197f19aa27ccff3a373897f164c70837abf3eab0a193276a90a78ab2bbe636270df2809064f42ffbe1b3b066af627c3629d6bbb253f82b02434772065f3a552509fbbdbe7702c7c2dd5dc8e37fab94f00b62428e7df025e77f9bb0f9ebe0f830cd1ff39e4875d6c048efb856d3d224bb5db02d53b88bd7a14a6feb2a152e0c66a4eb4adf11f1b190a096a90e22a3a3cd4b64b5e

Error: image

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  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:17 (4 by maintainers)

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arnav7633commented, Oct 19, 2021

Ok so i found the issue. Make sure your key size is max of 64bytes

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