encrypting-and-decrypting-data.md

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When a document or text needs to have privacy protected by a single user or when the document is to be shared among a small group of people who all have access to the same secret password, simple encryption/decryption can be done.	68eefd24-c924-4dd1-8cb3-cc20106f9605	Encrypting and Decrypting Data	article	05/31/2018

Encrypting and Decrypting Data

[CAPICOM is a 32-bit only component that is available for use in the following operating systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Instead, use the .NET Framework to implement security features. For more information, see Alternatives to Using CAPICOM.]

When a document or text needs to have privacy protected by a single user or when the document is to be shared among a small group of people who all have access to the same secret password, simple encryption/decryption can be done. CAPICOM does not support the PKCS #7 EncryptedData content type but uses a non-standard ASN structure for EncryptedData. Therefore, only CAPICOM can decrypt a CAPICOM EncryptedData object.

The following sections show examples for encryption and decryption tasks:

• Encrypting a Message in CAPICOM
• Decrypting a Message in CAPICOM