mike on Nostr: You use your private key to sign messages, others can verify your signature from your ...

You use your private key to sign messages, others can verify your signature from your public key.

If somebody wishes to send you an encrypted message, they use your public key to encrypt the message which can only be decrypted by your private key.

It uses asymmetric mathematical equations such that each part of your key pair can only work in one direction.

This isn't how it works, but a good analogy is if I ask you what the factors of 91 are, it will take you a long time to work it out.

If I told you that my factors are 7 and 13, you can easily calculate the answer is 91.