If you send it via email, the email will not be encrypted, which means that everybody who can read your emails, for example the police can read and it would have the key. With that they could read all your encrypted emails. Sending via email wouldnt be that smart than...
@lalaMisca A public key is meant to be PUBLIC. In other words, anyone can obtain it with no harm to you. However, they can only use that key for ENCRYPTING emails TO YOU and ONLY YOU. Only the corresponding PRIVATE key can DECRYPT a message encrypted with YOUR PUBLIC key and ONLY YOU have the PRIVATE key. It is virtually impossible to calculate the corresponding PRIVATE key from a PUBLIC key. Therefore, it's safe to send the PUBLIC key as is.
If you send it via email, the email will not be encrypted, which means that everybody who can read your emails, for example the police can read and it would have the key. With that they could read all your encrypted emails. Sending via email wouldnt be that smart than...
lalaMisca 1 year ago
@lalaMisca A public key is meant to be PUBLIC. In other words, anyone can obtain it with no harm to you. However, they can only use that key for ENCRYPTING emails TO YOU and ONLY YOU. Only the corresponding PRIVATE key can DECRYPT a message encrypted with YOUR PUBLIC key and ONLY YOU have the PRIVATE key. It is virtually impossible to calculate the corresponding PRIVATE key from a PUBLIC key. Therefore, it's safe to send the PUBLIC key as is.
TheGhostman0 8 months ago
i cant see anything on left sida what happend there and please how to we change public key and how to sign would you show us
unixuser01 3 years ago