# How-To: Decrypt Output Data

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### Prerequisites

1. **Encrypted Output**:\
   The output must be retrieved from a successful query execution.
2. **Secret Key**:\
   The user’s **Secret Key** is required to decrypt the message.

Use the following code snippet to decrypt the output data. \
Provide the **User Access Token** and the **encrypted output message** as parameters:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="🧊Python SDK" %}

```python
import lattica_common.app_api as agent_app
​
# Notice your query token expires in 30 days
query_token = "the_query_token_you_got_using_the_generate_user_token"

# user_data is a tuple of: 
# (serialized_context, serialized_secret_key, serialized_homseq)
# which you need for encrypting the query and querying the model
user_data = agent_app.user.query_offline_phase(query_token)

dataset = pd.read_csv('data/mnist_data.csv').values / 255
data = torch.tensor(dataset[0])
serialized_ct = agent_app.user.encrypt(user_data, dataset)

serialized_ct_res = agent_app.user.apply_hom_pipeline(serialized_ct)

serialized_pt = agent_app.user.decrypt(serialized_ct_res)
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="📦TypeScript SDK" %}

```javascript
import { LatticaQueryClient } from 'lattica-query-client';

const client = new LatticaQueryClient('your-jwt-query-token');

// Uploaded the EK
const initialized = await client.init();
if (!initialized) {
  console.error('Initialization failed: The EK was not successfully uploaded.');
  throw new Error('EK upload failed.');
}
console.log('EK uploaded successfully.');

// The data you want to encrypt
const inputTensor = ....;

// Encrypt the provided input
const ct = await client.encrypt(pt);

// Send your encrypted query to and get a resopnse
const ct_res = await latticaClient.apply_query(ct);

// Decrypt your query result
const pt_res = await latticaClient.decrypt(ct_res);
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="info" %}
This step focuses on a specific part of the query process: Output message decryption. \
If you prefer to perform **encryption, query execution, and decryption** in a single command, refer to \[How-To: [Encrypt, Execute, and Decrypt in One Step](/how-to-guides/secure-query-processing/how-to-encrypt-execute-and-decrypt-in-one-step.md)].
{% endhint %}


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