[ale] Key management

[JK]

Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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.

Ah, of course.  (But then, O *could* send signed messages, yes?
Contrary to the assertion that that couldn't occur.)

-- JK

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