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On Sat, 12 May 2001 18:42:34 +0800, Thomas contributed this to our
collective wisdom:
GE>> Even if B doews not have the senders public key, in our example pKa,
GE>> she would be able to decrypt the message. She wouldn't be able to
GE>> verify the signature but she could reveal the plaintext message from
GE>> the ciphertext.
T> Would she? I think you do need the sender's public key to drecypt a
T> message. Maybe I'm wrong about this?
AFAIK, you only need the senders public key to verify their signatures.
However, to decrypt an encrypted message to you, you only need your
private key to decrypt it. The messages encryption has nothing to do with
the senders public key.
©Allie
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