Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> [2002-08-15 18:13:31 -0700]: > Theoretically, the public key can be generated from teh secret key. I > don't know how to ask gpg to do that, though. Maybe you can ask in a > more gnupg-specific forum. Uh, pardon me? Actually no. Theoretically yes. But practically no. That is the whole point of encryption. It is not practical to decrypt encrypted text. Theoretically however I agree it is possible. Let's look at the problem another way. If by having one key you could generate the other key then anyone could generate your private key from your public key. And since the public key is public then no one's private key would be safe. But since people don't do that it is probably because they can't. It is a symmetrical problem. Sleep, sleeeeep, you need sleeep... :-) Bob
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