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A digital envelope is a secure data wrapper that provides privacy protection for a data packet. It protects the contents of the data packet from being viewed by anyone other than the intended recipient.

Use digital envelopes when storing or sending confidential data.

Prerequisites

If you have an external security product, it must support the PKCS#7 standard data format and X.509 public-key certificates.