[CentOS] gpg can't decrypt message

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Wed Oct 1 16:36:41 UTC 2014



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.



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