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Comment from Matriculated on 2011-01-30

2011-01-30T23:12:38Z

I think a good analogy to this would be:
Imagine the public key is a bunch of opened safes with a lock on it (partially disregarding the fact it could be physically tampered with). Then you send this open safe to someone and they place the item in it and shut the door. Now, even the person who placed the item in the safe can't even get back at what they just locked up (encrypted). The only key that can unlock it is your key for the safe (i.e. your "Private Key").

Though I stated to disregard the physical tampering as a possibility; if the algorithm was weak enough tampering may even be able to occur with the digital key pair, but this is highly improbable. Hope this helps.

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Comment from Interociter Operator on 2010-08-27

2010-08-28T00:13:29Z

I would say it is more like the master password at a bank, where the president of the bank types in half the password, then he leaves the room and the vice president comes in and types the other half. You need both halves to get verified data.

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Comment from ROK on 2010-04-27

2010-04-28T06:52:48Z

i have been trying to understand the public key/private key thing for ever.
would it be an accurate simili to say
you give keys out 2 everyone but you pick who puts it in the lock?

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Comment from Robert Earl Hazelett on 2009-05-27

2009-05-27T17:16:16Z

Leo,

Nice to see you use GPG and you posted your key. Here's mine. :^)

roberthazelett@gmail.com

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