Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:

> > 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.

  That's not what I was asking.

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