26 Feb 16 22:34, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> it works two ways...   
    ml>>   
    ml>> 1. if you post a message encrypted with your PRIVATE key, anyone with   
    ml>> your PUBLIC key can decrypt it... that proves it was you that   
    ml>> encrypted   
      
    PH> The issue I am having is using the tool I have come across to do just   
    PH> that. Use my Private key to encrypt something that can be unlocked by   
    PH> the PUBLIC key. It would appear gpg4win does not allow this and in a   
    PH> way I can understand why as it flys in the face of what I think the   
    PH> PUBLIC vs PRIVATE keys are to be used for (I think)   
      
   the thing is that they are opposites... what is done with one can only be   
   undone with the other...   
      
   [time passes]   
      
   i was able to export my keyrings from my pgp and import them into this gpg...   
   i imported your signature, too... then i tried decrypting that message but   
   apparently this is what you were talking about above...   
      
   i went hunting gpg4win command line options to see what is available...   
   uuugh... with pgp it was a simple task but now i can't find the details... it   
   looks like encrypting with the public key is the only way allowed now... but   
   as long as it has been, i may be confusing some things... even in the old pgp   
   documentation i have, it says that signing is done with the secret key (of   
   course) and then encryption is done with the recipient's public key... more   
   than one recipient can be specified, too... it has been a really long time,   
   though...   
      
   heck, my key was generated in 1992 and has only been updated a couple of times   
   since then... i need to update it again with a new email address as well as   
   indicating that the old one is no longer valid... i gotta figure out how to do   
   that all over again and then try to get it back over here into gpg... no way   
   in hell i'm going to try to go the other way from gpg to pgp... probably   
   wouldn't work anyway :lol:   
      
   [time passes]   
      
   ok, got my key updated but it is really weird that pgp shows the new items at   
   the top of the list and gpg shows them at the bottom where they're likely to   
   be missed... hummm...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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