Osama Al-Dosary wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to encrypt a message. But I want the encryption to be
> Public-key.
>
> Does this do the trick?
>
> "openssl smime -encrypt -in signedFile.msg \
> -out encryptedFile.msg \
> -des3 recipientCert.pem"
>
> I was figuring that since the certificate had the Public-key, openssl
> generates a key for des3. Then it encrypts the message with that des3 key,
> and encrypts the des3 key with the Public-key using RSA.
>
> Is this the case?
>
Yes. It packages the lot up in a PKCS#7 signedData structure and outputs
the result in MIME format.
Steve.
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