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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GPG: pub & sec keys required to decrypt?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:55:02
Message-Id: 49bf44f10809100854m714b3dd9y8d984a250ec40aed@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GPG: pub & sec keys required to decrypt? by Mike Edenfield
1 >> Can I configure this so that I don't have the two keys on the same
2 >> system? I'd like encrypt with my remote system and decrypt with my
3 >> local system. Is that possible? It seems like importing my private
4 >> key also imports the public key.
5 >
6 > I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying to do. If you are encrypting
7 > mail to other people, you should be using *their* public key, not your own.
8 > The only case where you need your public key is to encrypt mail to
9 > *yourself*; otherwise you don't need either of your keys on the remote
10 > system.
11
12 I'm trying to encrypt email on my remote system and read it on my
13 local system. I'm the only one who needs to read the mail.
14
15 Should I delete the private key from the remote system? It sounds
16 like the public key can always be regenerated from the private key so
17 there's no use in deleting it from the local system.
18
19 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} GPG: pub & sec keys required to decrypt? Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>