Your explanation makes it seem alot like PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) from years back. Perhaps not the same, but similar. Yes/No ?
- russ On Mar 3, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Daniel Mickelsen wrote: > >> I've never been able to understand how this works. What are the keys doing? > > Everyone who uses encrypted mail gets two keys: a public key and a private > key. A message encrypted with one of the keys can only be decrypted with the > other. You make one key public so people can use it to send you encrypted > mail. The other key is kept private and is used to decrypt the mail. > > The keys really are nothing more than really large numbers. Some mathematical > trickery is involved in the encryption/decryption, but you don’t really need > to know anything about that. > > Apple mail has had this capability for many years. You can get keys for free > from several places.
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