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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

  • You have an external security product.

  • The external security product supports the PKCS#7 standard data format and X.509 public-key certificates.