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

[Michael Havens]

So if I'm right calling it a 'key' is a misnomer. I am a very literal
person. if they call it a key it unlocks things, not creates them. That is
where my confusion is from. Am I correct?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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