On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 18:40, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So if you encrypt something for yourself, you'll need your public key >> to encrypt and your public key to decrypt. >> > > Little correction, you need the PRIVATE key to decrypt. Everybody has the > public key but since you don't want everybody to be able to decrypt, it's > done with the private key. But you want everybody to encrypt things to you, > so the public key is used for encryption.
Oh sorry, yes I meant private... > > Regards, > Sascha > > > -- $ ruby -e'puts " .:@BFegiklnorst".unpack("x4ax7aaX6ax5aX15ax4aax6aaX7ax2 \ aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \ ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join'