public/private keys.... what are they?

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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...
> ET
>
>
> 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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