r/cryptography

5mo ago

u/MattisTheProgrammer

Public-key encryption advice

I'm trying to find a public-key cipher where the public key CANNOT be derived from the private key. I'm don't know that many public-key encryption algorithms if I'm being honest so some help would be much appreciated.

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atoponce

5mo ago

Edited 5mo ago

That's not how asymmetric cryptography works. If you have the private key, you can always derive the public.

What are you trying to accomplish?

MattisTheProgrammer

5mo ago

This will sound very silly... There's a mod for Minecraft called "CC: Tweaked" which adds computers, and I'm trying to make my own encryption protocol for said mod since there aren't really lots of encryption protocols for the mod.…