usually secret information used as input to various kinds of cryptographic algorithms, like encryption, signature, MAC, to select the concrete transformation done by the algorithm.
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Requiring a “supervisor” key pair and a “user” key pair to decrypt multiple-recipient messages
I've been toying with some encryption scenarios recently. One of the hard ones I came across is a multi-party system.
So we have
Bob -- The person who sends the message (and knows it's recipients)
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