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   Message 675 of 845   
   Paul Hayton to mark lewis   
   Re: Hum..   
   27 Feb 16 15:26:26   
   
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   On 02/26/16, mark lewis pondered and said...   
       
    ml>  PH> that. Use my Private key to encrypt something that can be unlocked by   
    ml>  PH> the PUBLIC key. It would appear gpg4win does not allow this and in a   
    ml>  PH> way I can understand why as it flys in the face of what I think the   
    ml>  PH> PUBLIC vs PRIVATE keys are to be used for (I think)   
      
    ml> i was able to export my keyrings from my pgp and import them into this   
    ml> gpg... i imported your signature, too... then i tried decrypting that   
    ml> message but apparently this is what you were talking about above...   
      
   Yep. Using the windows UI it seems there is only one option and thats encode   
   using others public certificates and also include my own so I can open as   
   well what I encode if I want.   
      
    ml> details... it looks like encrypting with the public key is the only way   
    ml> allowed now... but as long as it has been, i may be confusing some   
    ml> things... even in the old pgp documentation i have, it says that signing   
    ml> is done with the secret key (of course) and then encryption is done with   
    ml> the recipient's public key... more than one recipient can be specified,   
    ml> too... it has been a really long time, though...   
      
   Yep you encrypt with their public and your private, they decode with their   
   private key and your public one. That seems to be the way.   
      
    ml> heck, my key was generated in 1992 and has only been updated a couple of   
    ml> times since then... i need to update it again with a new email address   
    ml> as well as indicating that the old one is no longer valid... i gotta   
    ml> figure out how to do that all over again and then try to get it back   
    ml> over here into gpg... no way in hell i'm going to try to go the other   
    ml> way from gpg to pgp... probably wouldn't work anyway :lol:   
      
   Yep I found a couple I created some time ago and one I will likely never be   
   able to remove and have long since lost the private key. The other (more of a   
   test) I had the foresight to make it expire a couple of years in the future   
   from when I created it.   
      
    ml> ok, got my key updated but it is really weird that pgp shows the new   
    ml> items at the top of the list and gpg shows them at the bottom where   
    ml> they're likely to be missed... hummm...   
      
   Not sure about this...   
      
   When I tried to import your PGP key into gpg4win it borked and did not like   
   it. I'll try it again now.   
      
   [time passes]   
      
   what I am trying to suck in won't work and it says it's a cert without a user   
   ID.   
      
   I'll keep trying but for now I seem unable to progress setting up a public   
   certificate entry in my software for you.    
      
   [time passes]   
      
   I found an entry for waldo kitty with a key ID of B60C20C5 but it won't   
   import. There are other entries for Mark Lewis but it's unclear which if any   
   are yours.   
      
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