On 10/01/2014 06:20 PM, Darr247 wrote: > On 2014-10-01 12:07 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Somebody, correct me... > > It also provides some measure of assurance that tampering of the content > has not occurred between time of sending and time of decryption, though > just *signing* it with the private key (without also encrypting) should > accomplish that as well. it's two different processes and they use different keys: you sign a message using your private key, but you encrypt a message using the recipient's public key.