Basic HTML version of Foils prepared January 31 1999

Foil 7 Enveloped data

From Security Overview of MiddleWare(WebFlow) for Gateway ASC Gateway Project Dayton Ohio -- January 7 1999. by Tom Haupt
Construction
  • generate at random a new key
  • encrypt the data (of any type) using this key
  • encrypt the key with the recipient public key
Verification
  • decrypt the key using the private key (authentication)
  • decrypt the contents using the recovered key (privacy)

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