Key Property

The Elgamal key used for decryption.

Syntax

 getKey(): ElgamalKey;

 setKey(key: ElgamalKey): void;

Default Value

Remarks

This property specifies the Elgamal key used to decrypt data. This property must be set before calling Decrypt.

An Elgamal key is made up of a number of individual parameters.

The public key consists of the following parameters:

• KeyP
• KeyG
• KeyY

The class also includes the KeyPublicKey property which holds the PEM formatted public key for ease of use. This is helpful if you are in control of both signature creation and verification process. When sending the public key to a recipient note that not all implementations will support using the PEM formatted value in KeyPublicKey in which case the individual parameters must be sent.

The private key consists of the following parameters:

• KeyP
• KeyG
• KeyY
• KeyX

The class also include the KeyPrivateKey property which holds the PEM formatted private key for ease of use. This is helpful for storing the private key more easily.