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:While it doesn't mean the message is <u>secure</u> as anybody could decrypt it with the public key, it does establish my <u>identity</u>, if the host can successfully decrypt the message then it must have come from the one person in possession of the private key.

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<li value="10">Start by generating a keypair as your learn account on centos2 using the command:<br /><b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">ssh-keygen</span></code></b></li>