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		emmelaich on July 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More Git and GitHub Secrets Yes and no. It extracts the public key from the private key file. The "private" key file includes both keys. The public key file doesn't.

dlitz on July 26, 2013 [–]

> The "private" key file includes both keys.

It wouldn't need to, though. Given the private key (n,d), the public key is probably (n,65537).

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