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Cryptography
Cryptography is used by Intel® DAL applets and firmware to exchange data securely, validate its integrity, and authenticate another party. The com.intel.crypto package provides an interface to cryptographic services.
The goals of cryptography are fourfold:
- Data Integrity - Ensure that data is created/modified by authorized parties only.
- Secrecy/Confidentiality - Restrict access to authorized parties only.
- Authentication - Verify the identity of an entity.
- Non-repudiation - Verify an action or data in such a way that denying its validity is impossible.
These goals can be achieved by using one or more of the following algorithms and a confidential key:
- Symmetric key cryptography: the same key is used for both encryption and decryption.
- Public (asymmetric) key cryptography:
- Encryption - a public key is used for encryption; a private key is used for decryption.
- Digital signing - a private key is used for signing; a public key is used for verification.
The following sections describe the cryptography algorithms that are supported by Intel DAL.
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