Thank you for the reply.
But can an attacker decrypt the output without the corresponding private
key?
Thank you,
-Osama
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Dr S N Henson wrote:
> 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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