Re: [Security-Discuss] Security newbie - gpg key & usage question ?

Ladislav Strojil ([email protected]) wrote:
> But you don't have to worry about this much - gpg does this for you.
> gpg --sign uses private key
> gpp --encrypt uses your public key
>
> But be warned -- if you encrypt for yourself and someone gets access to your
> encrypted files, chances are they also got your private key -- and though
> this is protected by a password, it is much easier to break this password
> protection than to break the encryption itself.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Lada
Yes, Thank you, that cleared it up very nicely ;)

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RickS
gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61
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