[ale] Key management

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:15 -0600, JK wrote:
> Robert Reese wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> > 
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> > On 5/14/2008 at 11:01 AM Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> > 
> >> Problem being, I don't want to have to distribute O's pub
> >> key manually to a dozen or 12 dozen sources.
> > 
> > Then what you are saying is that you won't ever send anything from O that is signed or encrypted.  O would only receive.

> Can't holders of O's public key decrypt data encrypted with O's
> private key?

	That's called a signature and verification.  Since the key is public
and, therefore, available to anyone, there is no confidentiality
associated with that combination.

> -- JK

	Mike
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