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'

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