Quote from: g30duck on October 08, 2012, 08:51 amQuote from: Nightcrawler on October 08, 2012, 06:38 amThe 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.htmlThanks nc but why is GPG4win garbage? I mean it works so? (I'm not trying to be weird, just trying to understand)gpg4win works, but the problem is that its' interface sucks. IIRC, Kleopatra is installed by default. Kleopatra operates using the clipboard (as do most gpg frontends) but the problem is, that when you encrypt or decrypt, while the data is transformed on the clipboard, you don't get any feedback from Kleopatra that it has done anything. Guru has pointed out that Kleopatra also generates old-style RSA keys. gpg4usb, on the other hand, is much more intuitive, and easy to use, even for newbies. You have a toolbar at the top of the screen, and two panes. The left pane is where you compose or paste your message, and the right pane shows the keys on your pgp keyring. To encrypt a message to someone, all you have to do is compose it in the left pane, put a check in the box beside the keys you want to encrypt to in the right-hand pane, and click the encrypt button. It doesn't get any easier than that. The typical newbie can be up and running in 30 seconds with gpg4usb. If people were using gpg4usb instead of gpg4win, more than 90% of the threads on here pleading for help with gpg would simply not exist.