When you say "public key is used to generate symmetric key" you lost me. Symmetric keys are typically just random numbers pulled from /dev/ random or similar.
Joe On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Andrew Berg wrote:
Why can't I use the same (symmetric) key I used to encrypt (public key is used to generate symmetric key that the corresponding private key can calculate) to decrypt?
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