Re: Two different RsynCrypto scenario's

[Shachar S. <sh...@sh...>]

Jan Alphenaar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I was just wondering if there was any difference in the level of 
> encryption for the two following scenario's.
>
>  
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> In the first scenario I generate a certificate and a key. Encryption 
> is done with the certificate and decryption is done with the key. See 
> these commands directly below.
>
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> openssl.exe req -days 35600 -newkey rsa:1536 -keyout cert.key -nodes 
> -x509 -out cert.crt -config openssl.conf"
>
> rsyncrypto test_clear.txt test_enc.txt test.key cert.crt
>
> rsyncrypto -d test_enc.txt test_clear.txt test.key cert.key"
>
>  
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> In the second scenario I only generate an RSA key and both encrypt and 
> decrypt the files with this key. See the commands directly below.
>
>  
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> openssl.exe req -days 35600 -newkey rsa: 1536 -keyout private.key 
> -nodes -config openssl.conf"
>
> rsyncrypto test_clear.txt test_enc.txt test.key private.key"
>
> rsyncrypto -d test_enc.txt test_clear test.key cert.key"
>
If you still have the symmetric key (test.key) around, you can also 
decrypt using the certificate (cert.crt).

All of the above are supported. I'm not sure what the question is.

Shachar

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