Quote from: SorryMario on January 06, 2013, 04:51 amQuote from: Nightcrawler on January 06, 2013, 01:02 am Kleopatra is broken, period -- KLEOPATRA DOES NOT GENERATE STANDARDS-COMPLIANT PGP KEYS, and that is only one of its many faults. Now this is a concern I also have with Kleopatra. Not only did it not ask for a password when creating new key-pairs, it also created them VERY quickly (too quickly for me to feel comfortable using the generated keys). In contrast, GPA (on Windows) and Ubuntu's "Passwords and Keys" program both ask you to set a password and take a while to generate the key-pairs - and as well it should since it must create a pair of several-hundred digit long prime numbers which is a CPU intensive process. I haven't used Kleopatra for a long time to generate keypairs, so I tested this out myself. You are absolutely right -- no prompt for a password, and the key was generated in about 15 seconds. Normally key generation takes considerably longer than this, although it must be remembered that Kleopatra does not generate a separate encryption sub-key, which may account for some of the time savings. Your observations are only further ammunition for Kleopatra's abandonment. Quote from: SorryMario on January 06, 2013, 04:51 amSo I use Kleopatra for encrypting/decrypting in Ubuntu, but NOT for new key generation. [EDIT: I just found out I don't need Kleopatra to do this after all - Ubuntu has a right-click context menu that I can use to encrypt/decrypt/sign files... duhhhh..... kissing Kleopatra goodbye now!]I downloaded GPG4USB, but for some reason my machine couldn't run the linux install file. Not sure what the problem is. :-\Does the start_linux executable in GPG4USB have the executable bit set? If not, why don't you try the chmod +x command, as in: chmod +x start_linuxNC