From what I understand, when you send information to a website over SSL, you encrypt the information you send with their public key.

However, if you want to be able to decrypt the information they reply with, you are going to need a private/public key combination yourself. I don't ever recall having been prompted for an RSA key by my browser, or been required to generate one; where does this key come from?

If your browser creates one for you, is it generated once and then stored on your computer forever, or is a new key generated for every session or site?

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