Quote from: g30duck on October 08, 2012, 03:10 amQuote from: waynegretski on October 08, 2012, 02:06 amPrivate key - has to be present in order to decode a message.and wayne, when I drag my mouse over my keys, GNU says "The key has both a private and a public part" so do you know if this means that one does not separately create a prvate key? As in when one creates a public key, the private key is already in there?Or am I not making any sense here?The private and public keys are both generated at the same time. Do yourself a favor-- ditch gpg4win, and Kleopatra; use gpg4usb instead. Kleopatra is garbage. gpg4usb homepage: http://gpg4usb.cpunk.de/index.html