Ok. Thanks. What I'm still confused about is why some tutorials are telling me to write down and back up these public keys, when I or anyone else can find them online.
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Ok. Thanks. What I'm still confused about is why some tutorials are telling me to write down and back up these public keys, when I or anyone else can find them online.
Public and private keys go in pairs. So you need to have both. A hacker, if he breaks your private key, may change the entire pair of public/private into something new.
So the backing up is more retrieval purposes than security purposes. I think I understand. Thank you for your time.