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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 18:40, Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> So if you encrypt something for yourself, you'll need your public key |
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>> to encrypt and your public key to decrypt. |
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> Little correction, you need the PRIVATE key to decrypt. Everybody has the |
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> public key but since you don't want everybody to be able to decrypt, it's |
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> done with the private key. But you want everybody to encrypt things to you, |
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> so the public key is used for encryption. |
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Oh sorry, yes I meant private... |
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> Regards, |
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> Sascha |
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$ ruby -e'puts " .:@BFegiklnorst".unpack("x4ax7aaX6ax5aX15ax4aax6aaX7ax2 \ |
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aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \ |
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ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join' |
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