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Network security: Public and Private keys
In Pretty Good Privacy, it is said that Sender sends compressed message and encrypts the message with the private key of himself. And then Receiver will decrypt that message with the public key of the ...
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Is your PGP passphrase used to decrypt an encrypted private key, or needed in conjunction with the private key to decrypt the message?
If the former, then if the private key can be used to digitally sign messages, why doesn't your client offer to encrypt this highly sensitive piece of data?
If the latter, then if someone had access ...
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Generate a PGP key with more than 4096 bits?
I would like to know if generating a PGP key with a number of bits higher than 4096 is possible and if so how?
