What's the encryption flow?
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Fri Sep 27 17:56:19 CEST 2013
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:30, Jondebonis at gmail.com said:
> Is there a document or diagram that explains how encryption happens?
Yes, RFC-4880 has all the details.
> rand_key = GenerateRandomKey(bits)
> rand_key_e = E_pk(rand_key)
> cypher_text = E_rand_key(plain_text)
Bascially correct.
> ... sign message...
>
> Where E_pk === encrypt with public key (asymmetric);
I don't understand this. For signing, you use a sign algorithms. It is
just a coincidence that the core of the RSA algorithm is used in a kind
of reversed mode for signature.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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