How Does Bob Encrypt Data For Alice, Using Just Her Email Address?
Go and encrypt …
4 min readDec 17, 2019
So can you send me an encrypted message by just knowing my ID? Well, IBE (Identity Based Encryption) does this, and the MIRACL library is just perfect in implementing it. Basically atrust authority creates a secret from Alice’s ID, and then passes Alice’s private key using her ID and the secret value:
