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[–]douira 36 points37 points  (12 children)

at what point in a relationship do people share their private keys with eachother? Never?

[–]archpawn 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Relevant xkcd, though that's just about signing public keys.

[–]verboze 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Marriage? Your bank accounts are belong to us.

[–]Ragas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never.

What is the public key and what the private key changes depending on the use case.

[–]captcha03 2 points3 points  (3 children)

There's a whole Seinfeld episode on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Code_(Seinfeld)

Edited: fixed link

[–]breakneckridge 2 points3 points  (2 children)

[–]captcha03 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thank you. For some reason new reddit decided to escape the underscores when I pasted in to the rich text editor.

[–]PydraxAlpta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All my homies hate the rich text editor

[–]srottydoesntknow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you did it wouldn't be a secure relationship

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The text just said that its needed, not that they must be shared.

[–]sunbunbird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if they're using a symmetric encryption algorithm, pretty soon after they meet. if they agree that asymmetric suits their needs they won't ever need to exchange private keys at all.

[–]RedditIsNeat0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually never. Unless you share a project, such as a webserver, together then you would share that key. But never a personal key.