# Java Security Cheat Sheet — Asymmetric example using Google Tink

> Google Tink has documentation on performing common tasks. For example, this page (from Google's website) shows how to perform a hybrid encryption process where two parties want to share data based on their asymmetric key pair. The following code snippet shows how this functionality can be used to sh

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## Knowledge

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Google Tink has documentation on performing common tasks.

For example, this page (from Google's website) shows how to perform a hybrid encryption process where two parties want to share data based on their asymmetric key pair.

The following code snippet shows how this functionality can be used to share secrets between Alice and Bob

Click here to view the "Tink hybrid encryption" code snippet.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```java
import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

import com.google.crypto.tink.HybridDecrypt;
import com.google.crypto.tink.HybridEncrypt;
import com.google.crypto.tink.InsecureSecretKeyAccess;
import com.google.crypto.tink.KeysetHandle;
import com.google.crypto.tink.TinkJsonProtoKeysetFormat;
import com.google.crypto.tink.hybrid.HybridConfig;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.Base64;

// HybridReplaceTest
class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        /*

        Generated public/private keypairs for Bob and Alice using the
        following tinkey commands:

        ./tinkey create-keyset \
        --key-template DHKEM_X25519_HKDF_SHA256_HKDF_SHA256_AES_256_GCM \
        --out-format JSON --out alice_private_keyset.json

        ./tinkey create-keyset \
        --key-template DHK
```

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