[pycrypto] Pycrypto question.

Lorenz Quack don at amberfisharts.com
Sun May 2 14:13:40 CST 2010


Hi Jd,

On 05/02/2010 10:02 PM, jd wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to implement a simple pub/private key scheme. Want to encrypt bunch of things and decrypt it using public
> key (which will be distributed).

You seem to have some misconceptions about how public key cryptography works.
I suggest you (re-)read up on it. Wikipedia will probably cover the basics.
For starters, by definition you use the *public* key for encrypt and the privat one for decryption.

cheers,
//Lorenz


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