Open envelope

cds open envelope OBJECT
cds open envelope HASH on STORE

Downloads an envelope, verifies its signatures, and tries to decrypt the AES key using the selected key pair and your own key pair.

In addition to displaying the envelope details, this command also displays the necessary "cds show record …" command to retrieve the content.

cds open envelope HASH

As above, but uses the selected store.

… from ACTOR

Assumes that the envelope was signed by ACTOR, and downloads the corresponding public key. The sender store is assumed to be the envelope's store. This is useful to verify public and private envelopes.

… using KEYPAIR

Tries to decrypt the AES key using this key pair, instead of the selected key pair.

Syntax

Open