Re: [gpgtools-users] assistance

2011-11-15 Thread Steve
Hey Robert, cryptography can be confusing. And don't expect to understand everything with a finger snap. I'd suggest to read: http://www.gpgtools.org/intro.html for starters. It is a nice introduction explaining what is what and how all this stuff works. We know that basic information is essen

Re: [gpgtools-users] assistance

2011-10-26 Thread Gary Foster
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of PGP A public key is not encrypted text. A public key is something you use *to* encrypt text. The private key that belongs to that public/private pair is then used to decrypt the text you encrypted. You have three fundamental pieces of data:

[gpgtools-users] assistance

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Gibson
I am having a terrible time trying to figure out how to use your software package, Basically I am trying to decrypt Public PGP Keys and read the information within them, when I copy/paste the public pgp key into a text editor on OSX 10.6.8 I keep getting the error message that there is no decry