> Do you have any basis to guess it's not provable or that they are not > uniquely paired?
Just that I have never seen a proof and I have learned in crypto to doubt every unproven assumption. > They are supposed to be uniquely paired. "Supposed to be." Is that real different from what I said? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: vendor distributes their private key On Friday, August 23, 2019, 04:34:14 PM PDT, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >> I believe a public key can be associated with more than one PGP private key > I don't know PGP at all but for basic asymmetrical or public/private key > encryption, > the public and private keys are basically one to one with each other. You > generate > a pair, both halves at once. Although I guess it is not provable that no two > public > keys have the same private key, that situation is hopefully unlikely. Do you have any basis to guess it's not provable or that they are not uniquely paired? They are supposed to be uniquely paired. Jon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
