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Maybe this doesn't belong here, but whatever. Public key encryption, as I found out today can work two ways. The method I learned was how users [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Introduction_to_Public-Key_Cryptography#Public-Key_Encryption send encrypted information to websites]. It turns out that public key encryption can work the other way too. The private key can be used to encrypt the data (which I knew as well), and the ''public key can be used to decrypt''. This is how certificates work. The CA uses their private key to encrypt the data and openly releases their public key. The browser uses the public key to decrypt. Thankfully I came across a very.. [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Introduction_to_Public-Key_Cryptography thorough explanation] of public key cryptography.