> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> A company that requires you to send files to them electronically using
>> SFTP, requires that it uses public key authentication, and emails you
>> the private key that you're supposed to use, unencrypted.
>
>    I thought the private key can only be used to decrypt, not to encrypt.
> (Unless the public key can be created from the private key, which might be
> the case.)
>

Normaly, you should first create your private decryption key.
Then, from that key, you generate the public encryption key. That key 
can be transmited unencrypted.

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