Private key for encryption? about lightphe HOT 5 CLOSED

Good point!

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Also I found that when performing export_keys() in lightphe.__init__ in case of exporting (publishing) the public key, it deletes private key in the process. This leaves the LightPHE object (who should have private key, because it generated it) unable to decrypt.

246: if public is True and keys.get("private_key") is not None:
247:     del keys["private_key"]

My current workaround:

gm = LightPHE('Paillier')
gm.export_keys('private.key', public=False)
gm.export_keys('public.key', public=True)
gm = LightPHE('Paillier', key_file='private.key')

Proposed fix:
Don't delete the private_key from keys when performing export_keys(), just export the public_key

pubkey = {'public_key': keys['public_key']}
with open(target_file, "w", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
    file.write(pubkey)

@serengil should i create new issue for that?

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@gR0OT yes please

i will fix them all tonight - i hope

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Closed with PR - #19

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Also, release is published in pip

https://pypi.org/project/lightphe/0.0.6/

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