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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-02-17 13:30:16 -0800
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public key
This is one of two keys involved in :term:`public-key cryptography`. It
- can be used to encrypt messages for someone posessing the corrosponding
- :term:`private key` and to verify signatures created with the
- corrosponding :term:`private key`. This can be distributed publicly,
- hence the name.
+ can be used to encrypt messages for someone possessing the
+ corresponding :term:`private key` and to verify signatures created with
+ the corresponding :term:`private key`. This can be distributed
+ publicly, hence the name.
private key
This is one of two keys involved in :term:`public-key cryptography`. It
can be used to decrypt messages which were encrypted with the
- corrosponding :term:`public key`, as well as to create signatures,
- which can be verified with the corrosponding :term:`public key`. These
+ corresponding :term:`public key`, as well as to create signatures,
+ which can be verified with the corresponding :term:`public key`. These
**must** be kept secret, if they are exposed, all encrypted messages
are compromised, and an attacker will be able to forge signatures.