Thanks for the reply Jean-Claude, appreciated! Actually the whole senario is like this. I have a software that I am selling to the customers. I want to encrypt the information (license info) with my private key, and the software will contain (embedded/hardcoded) public key (the way I would like to do) and with that key the software will be able to decrypt the lincese information. I dont want to use symetric encoding/decoding, then its too easy to findout the key and generate a new license using that key even without hex editing. So that was the reason looking into PKI. I'd higly appreciate if anyone could comment if there is a better way to do what I am trying to achieve.
Thanks for your time,
Regards,
Usman.
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>Usman Riaz wrote :
>>
>> I want to use PKI to encrypt some data and send it to the
>>customer to be decrypted. With my limitied knowledge about PKI, the
>>data can be encrypted using "private key" and then lateron that
>>encrypted data could be decrypted with the "public key".
>
>No, you encrypt the data using the public key of the customer, and
>the customer will decrypt it using its private key.
>
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