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Signed-off-by: Lovesh Harchandani <lovesh.bond@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lovesh Harchandani <lovesh.bond@gmail.com>
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Jun 6, 2018
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| The recipients decrypt the Authcrypt Meta messages and verify it like any other Authcrypt message. Then it hashes Elemental and verifies it matches the hash in the Meta. Then it decrypts Elemental using the key in Meta. | ||
| The recipients decrypt the Authcrypt Meta messages and verify it like any other Authcrypt message. Then it hashes Elemental and verifies it matches the hash `msg_hash` in the Meta. | ||
| If the `msg_hash` does not match the hash of the Elemental then it knows that either the sender did not calculate the hash correctly or the Cloud agent tampered the data. |
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Adding a hash of the encrypted data seems like a homegrown approach to a MAC. Consider doing a MAC
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