Problem 44963. Mask Generation Function (MGF1) for PKCS #1 Standard utilizing Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding for RSA Cryptography

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Create Mask Generation Function (MGF1) from PKCS #1 v2.2 standard (B.2.1) at below link. Input will be character array (mgfSeed) which will need to be converted to octet array using UTF-8 representation. Output must be octet array (uint8) of length, maskLen (input). Hashing must use SHA-1 (160 - 20 byte).
For example:
mgfSeed = 'I like to swim.';%input
maskLen = 20;%input
mask = [170,251,101,210,23,101,10,242,193,163,174,148,104,138,228,245,52,234,0,195];%output
See: https://www.foo.be/docs/opensst/ref/pkcs/pkcs-1/pkcs-1v2-1d1.pdf

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 24 Oct 2020

For anyone trying this problem, you will probably have to implemment I2OSP too from the documentation, which is a function to convert a decimal number to base 256 of fixed length. Follow the specs to the letter.

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