Quote from: fredandginger on December 30, 2012, 11:04 pmright, so i have downloaded gpg4usb. now i still cant figure out how to decrypt the messageAs Astor has correctly pointed out, you don't get to decrypt it, period. The only messages you can decrypt are those encrypted with a public key that you have generated, for which you have the private half. Let me put it this way... if this were NOT the case, then the encryption would be of no value whatsoever, as anyone could decrypt any message, as long as they had a copy of the software. That also goes for the police, naturally. If you were able to decrypt this message, then so could the police, or anyone else -- the software would be useless, providing no protection whatsoever. The entire idea behind PGP/GPG, is to be able to encrypt messages that only the intended recipients can decrypt -- not you, not me, not the police. If you didn't provide the vendor with a PGP key that you generated, then the message is encrypted with a key that does not belong to you, therefore you cannot decrypt it. I suspect that the suggestion that the vendor made a mistake is correct, that you were sent a message encrypted to someone else's key. NC