I still don't quite get it. You generate the key with the public key and does that produce a private key. So the public key never changes? I think it just dawned on me! The public key must be an algorithm which makes the private key.
:-)~MIKE~(-:On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:37 PM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:There are several 'flavors of keys' (and I am no expert) but I'll tell you about keys to ssh without passwords.
When you:
$ ssh-keygen
The program creates a public and a private key.
You can only decrypt with the private, anyone can encrypt with the public.
When you locate the public in the appropriate location, you can login without password in the other box.
There are 348695456 configuration variables to this...
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Michael Havens writes:
I read http://www.weegy.com/home.aspx?ConversationId=0E113805
So, what I am guessing is that there is a public key on the computer that
is sending the information to encrypt the data and (for security) you have
another key to decrypt the data. But I suppose that the sender must have
the receivers key as well so it isn't really more secure.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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