Error occurred while decoding OAEP padding

Question

While decrypting text using RSACryptoServiceProvider.Decrypt, I am getting the error:

Error occurred while decoding OAEP padding.

Answer 1

RSA encryption may result non readable character, make sure not to cut the string due to special character indicating end of something during write/read the encryption result; e.g you must not use strlen for it will stop when encounter a '\0' in the string.

Answer 2

A common mistake is to try to decrypt using the public key.