you encrypt the file using your secret key and publish your pub-key to a key server (there are many free ones) .So your friend can decrypt using the pub-key
I am not sure if you will be able to decrypt if you lose the key .technically you should not ..as thats what Public key cryptography is for right? 2011/3/31 Joe Joseph ജോ ജോസഫ് <[email protected]> > I created a PGP key using seahorse program..and encrypted some files.... > saved filename.asc and later came to know i ahd to backup ~/.gnupg > folder(but did not backup the folder and formated the /home during > reinstalltion of same os accidentally)...and i cannot decrypt the files... > only i have now the .asc file .Is there a to decyrpt the files > > again using the same key i encrypted a mail using a thunderbird plugin but > my friend could not read it....is was scrambled figure my friend got. > > can anyone explain 1>how to allow my friend to read the f,mail etc if i > send him/her an ecnrypted msg or file ile...2>how Gnu PG works and how to > backup the key pairs.....in Ubuntu/Linuxmint > > Regards > Joe Joseph > > -- > mailto:[email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- Anoop P Alias (PGP Key ID : 0x014F9953) GNU system administrator http://GnuSys.net
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