Quote from: discotronics on October 09, 2012, 12:46 amI suppose I got this wrong... I got the impression a group of people could communicate using a public key, kind of just the public key itself served as a password and whoever had that information could communicate on that.A message encrypted with one or more public keys can can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key(s) and the passphrases that unlock them. If three people wish to communicate securely then each message needs to be encrypted with the public keys of all the people involved.Quote from: discotronics on October 09, 2012, 12:46 amSo, I'd import pine's public key, type some text in the 'Clipboard' and encrypt it to hir, but am only able to even ATTEMPT to decrypt things on my end that are issued to a key I own both public & private??Yes. So if you want to be able to decrypt the messages you send you need to encrypt them using your key and whoever you are communicating with. In the example you've given that would be encrypting to yourself and Pine.