How Azure RMS works under the hood

It's quite important to how RMS works it delivers the data protection service of the complete Azure Information Protection solution. First of all, the protected data will never be transferred to the Azure Information Protection or Rights Management service itself. Basically, the data is encrypted at the application level and includes a policy that defines who is authorized and which usage rights are applied for these users. Keep in mind that group memberships are cached for three hours. So, if you change permissions, remember this to avoid misinterpreted results. To get a better understanding of the three typical flows, let's explore the flows in this section. But first, we'll look at the algorithms and key lengths used by Azure RMS.

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