[Cialug] dumb gpg question

Nathan C. Smith smith at ipmvs.com
Fri Jul 22 09:52:44 CDT 2005


James,

Out of curiosity, would that double the size of the file, or is there GPG
juju-magic that prevents that?

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: James Shoemaker [mailto:james at dhlake.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:49 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] dumb gpg question



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Kenneth Ristau wrote:
> Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> 
>>If I am encrypting data using someone else's public key, can I decrypt 
>>the file with that same key?
> 
> 
> No.  At that point, only the owner of that public key can use his/her 
> secret key to decrypt the file.
> 
	Important hint, always encode a file with your key as well as the
person you are sending to.

James
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