Optimal asymmetric encryption padding

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In cryptography, Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) is a padding scheme often used together with RSA encryption.

See RFC2437 for an outline of how OAEP padding and un-padding works in conjunction with RSA.