How Key Recovery Works This is the way a company can retain the ability to read encrypted messages if employees lose their keys: 1. ENCRYPTION: An employee creates a message that is encrypted with a ''session key'' generated by the system. 2. TRANSMISSION: The key is also encrypted. The message and key are sent to the recipient. The recovery center also has the ability to unlock the key. 3. RETRIEVAL: The recipient decrypts the key and uses it to read the message. If the company needs to read the message, it does the same.

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