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well as indicating that the old one is no longer valid...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...

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