Encryption

diaspora* wraps the Salmon Magic Envelope into a simple JSON structure, to encrypt private messages.

Encrypted Magic Envelope

{
  "aes_key": "...",
  "encrypted_magic_envelope": "..."
}

Key	Description
`aes_key`	The AES Key JSON encrypted with the recipients public key using RSA and then base64 encoded.
`encrypted_magic_envelope`	The Magic Envelope encrypted with the `aes_key` using AES-256-CBC and then base64 encoded.

{
  "key": "...",
  "iv": "..."
}

Key	Description
`key`	The base64 encoded AES key.
`iv`	The base64 encoded AES iv.

Both key and iv have to be suitable for AES-256-CBC.