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The sign and encrypt engine is the central component of Identity Manager for signing, verification, and encryption using keys and certificates. It handles several use cases, like encryption and decryption of fields in the Identity Manager database, signing, verification, and encryption of the object history and more..
Most use cases have to be configured for each deployment, so that the private keys are kept secret. The sign and encrypt engine provides a consistent configuration of keys and certificates for both signing and encryption. You can define algorithms and parameters and reference keys from an HSM (for most use-cases) or from PKCS#12 files (for all use cases).
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