3 years ago

Category: Data, encryption

For those that haven’t heard about Tink, it is a very powerful library for using cryptographic primitives. That problem is asymmetric encryption; i.e. Alice wants to send a secret message to Bob, so she encrypts a message with Bob’s public key, then Bob decrypts it with his private key.

Now that you have the public key in a file of some kind, lets deliver it to the folks who are building an app that encrypts with it.

It now has access to the public key to encrypt values with, so it only needs to use tink.

Usage will look something like this: Once the application sends encrypted data back to you, you can decrypt it again with the private key you have stored in Secret Manager.