Public key encryption example.

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 19:04:00 EST 2015


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> writes:
>> I am looking for the "simplest" example of sending(encrypting) and
>> receiving(decrypting) using public key encryption. I am think of something
>> along the lines of having all the keys in local files and saving and
>> reading the message from a local file.
>
> It's very easy to make mistakes doing stuff like that.  Your simplest
> bet is to shell out to GPG or something comparable.

It's not that hard to pull up a library. I've never done it in Python, though.

ChrisA



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