I used 2 test keys using the key block for Alice as the public key and 
Roger as the private key. but receiving a panic error: panic: runtime 
error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x128 pc=0x51fdd7]

On Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 3:37:01 AM UTC-5 Brian Candler wrote:

> Your program does that already, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
>
> Note that you don't need the private key to encode.  Your function 
> encryptMessage() makes no use of the arguments privateKey, 
> privateKeyPassword - you can simply remove them.
> https://play.golang.org/p/EbuCRR32C7d
>
> Now it's clearer that encryptMessage() uses the public key only, and 
> decryptMessage() uses the private key only.
>
> Therefore, Alice needs only Roger's public key to encrypt.  She doesn't 
> need Roger's private key, nor her own private key unless she wants to sign 
> the message.
>
> Roger needs only Roger's private key to decrypt.  If the message was 
> signed by Alice's private key, he would need Alice's public key to verify 
> the signature.
>
> On Sunday, 28 February 2021 at 03:02:59 UTC Hugo3 wrote:
>
>> https://play.golang.org/p/HpXdDlKcOPt
>>
>>
>> This is an example what I want to do is return a encrypted message from 
>> Alice
>> that can only be read by decrypted with Rogers key to reveal a sensitive 
>> message. 
>>
>>
>>

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