Re: [DLC]GPG question

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:55:01PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >From what I've learned about PGP, you encrypt with a public key,
> and can only decrypt with the corresponding private key. That being

That is often one, common way to use PGP.

> said, I think we must somehow find the private key that is paired
> with the public key Professor Kristoff encrypted that message with.

But not the only way to use PGP.

FYI... I'm not officially a "professor".  Technically I'm just a
lecturuer.  I mention this, because sometimes, though not so much
at DePaul / CDM in my experience, full-time tenure or tenure-track
professors care about the distinction.

> My other thought is maybe the provided in the message "IP
> Specification + TCP Specification = ?" may mean something in regards
> to the passphrase. But I think in order to fully decrypt a PGP
> message you need both the private key passphrase AND the private key.
> So I'm stumped so far.

You're on the right track, except for thinking you need anything
else besides what is in that file to get to the next step.

John
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