Re: PGP scripting...

Jason Coombs wrote:

>In addition to being confused about arbitrary asymmetry in RSA cryptography
While it is mathematically satisfying that public and private keys are symmetric, as a practical matter you want to be really, *really* careful to always publis the one key (public), and never, *ever* publish the other key (private). "Oopsing" and publishing the wrong one by mistake would be disasterous.

This makes it rather convenient that the software won't readily allow you to accidentally publish your private key.

Crispin

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