Can I use my ssh-public-key to decrypt a file?

Question

I\'m trying to find a way to decrypt an encrypted file on a \'virgin\' EC2-instance. These EC-instances I use (Ubuntu Lucid) only hold my AWS-created public ssh-key. If can use

Answer 1

If you just want to encrypt/decrypt using your ssh keys, ssh-vault could be useful, more info here: http://ssh-vault.com/about/