PKI concept trouble.
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I've got the theory down pat, I don't question the veracity of the material, but I still don't quite grasp how it works.
PKI - User JohnDoe Public Key: A10 Private Key: A1010
User SmithySmith Public Key: A20 Private Key: A2020
According to most PKI conceptual material I've read, user JohnDoe would encrypt a message going to SmithySmith with SmithySmith's PUBLIC KEY. When SmithySmith receives this message, he will then DECRYPT it with his mathematically-similar Private Key.
How in the hell do you decrypt a message with a key it was not encrypted with. I understand it is mathematically similiar, but if the decryption algorithm compensated for this, then wouldnt the whole encyption process just be bunk, as the encyption scheme is known?
PKI - User JohnDoe Public Key: A10 Private Key: A1010
User SmithySmith Public Key: A20 Private Key: A2020
According to most PKI conceptual material I've read, user JohnDoe would encrypt a message going to SmithySmith with SmithySmith's PUBLIC KEY. When SmithySmith receives this message, he will then DECRYPT it with his mathematically-similar Private Key.
How in the hell do you decrypt a message with a key it was not encrypted with. I understand it is mathematically similiar, but if the decryption algorithm compensated for this, then wouldnt the whole encyption process just be bunk, as the encyption scheme is known?
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broc
Member Posts: 167
You need to read about Asymmetric Encryption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”