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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    Re: Symmetric encryption - options?
From:       Eric Christensen <eric () christensenplace ! us>
Date:       2012-03-13 20:22:21
Message-ID: CAD9NUJoV+LhYT9DQvyrgN-E+ve4Du8oXhGP1WQsZhQPD4kvT6w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:02, jpemail2001-321@yahoo.com <
jpemail2001-321@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >If you choose to use someone's public certificate to encrypt a message,
> >they use the private part of that certificate to decrypt it -- different
> >things for encryption and decryption, thus a different kind of
> >algorithm, an asymmetric one, is used.
>
> So you would suggest, to use RSA? I think so because it seems to be
> stronger encryption.
>

RSA is not an encryption algorithm.  RSA is a means of exchanging keys.

--Eric

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href="mailto:jpemail2001-321@yahoo.com">jpemail2001-321@yahoo.com</a> <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jpemail2001-321@yahoo.com">jpemail2001-321@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> \
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,new \
york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><pre>&gt;If you choose to use someone&#39;s \
public certificate to encrypt a message, &gt;they use the private part of that \
certificate to decrypt it -- different &gt;things for encryption and decryption, thus \
a different kind of &gt;algorithm, an asymmetric one, is used.</pre>So you would \
suggest, to use RSA? I think so because it seems to be stronger \
encryption.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>RSA is not an \
encryption algorithm.   RSA is a means of exchanging keys.<br>

<br>--Eric<br></div></div>



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