It are diagrams like this that confuse users and cause them to make (fatal) mistakes...
You have a responsibility when writing about security stuff!
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@vanitasvitaeIf I'm not mistaken the public key and private key should switch places? 🤔
@RyuKurisu I believe the author wants to describe signing of messages in that section.
But yeah, if you switch public and private key around then you have encryption :)
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Just to add, in case of encryption the keys should be of person B
@wuwei @vanitasvitae yeah and switched like I said before 🤔
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@RyuKurisu I believe the author wants to describe signing of messages in that section.
But yeah, if you switch public and private key around then you have encryption :)