Quote from: animalpen on August 23, 2012, 10:43 amSo after pasting that PGP message into textedit and attempting to decrypt it it said "decrypt failed no public key" What am i doing wrong?The message was encrypted to your key, my key, Guru's key and Pine's key:Old: Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 1)(396 bytes)New version(3)Key ID - 0xBA665721A9E19F6EPub alg - RSA Encrypt or Sign(pub 1)RSA m^e mod n(3070 bits) - ...-> m = sym alg(1 byte) + checksum(2 bytes) + PKCS-1 block type 02Old: Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 1)(524 bytes)New version(3)Key ID - 0xFF954FA3048FB30DPub alg - RSA Encrypt or Sign(pub 1)RSA m^e mod n(4093 bits) - ...-> m = sym alg(1 byte) + checksum(2 bytes) + PKCS-1 block type 02Old: Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 1)(268 bytes)New version(3)Key ID - 0xA9391DD2DD1BF00FPub alg - RSA Encrypt or Sign(pub 1)RSA m^e mod n(2048 bits) - ...-> m = sym alg(1 byte) + checksum(2 bytes) + PKCS-1 block type 02Old: Public-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 1)(1038 bytes)New version(3)Key ID - 0x00ACF6D2D677EF45Pub alg - ElGamal Encrypt-Only(pub 16)ElGamal g^k mod p(4093 bits) - ...ElGamal m * y^k mod p(4096 bits) - ...-> m = sym alg(1 byte) + checksum(2 bytes) + PKCS-1 block type 02New: Symmetrically Encrypted and MDC Packet(tag 18)(512 bytes) partial startVer 1Encrypted data [sym alg is specified in pub-key encrypted session key](plain text + MDC SHA1(20 bytes))New: (359 bytes) partial endSo you should be able to decrypt it. GPG should detect that one of the keys it is encrypted to is yours (0xA9391DD2DD1BF00F) and prompt for your passphrase.