Quote from: stemcell on January 25, 2013, 12:36 amim using GnuPG. That, unfortunatley, is not at all helpful. Saying that you use GnuPG is like saying you drive a car -- is it a Ford, Yugo, Mercedes? Similarly, there are any number of GnuPG implementations, some good, some not so good. Some of these are: GPG4USB (good) GPG4WIN (not so good), PortablePGP (execrably bad) and iGolder.com (execrably bad.)GnuPG is identical for all platforms when run from the command-line; the differences in the various interfaces (or front-ends) for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X are literally enormous. Without knowing which one you're using, there is no way to help you, because we have no way of knowing what you are using, we cannot give you instructions or help. Quote from: stemcell on January 25, 2013, 12:36 amfor me to be using that and encrypt a message to a supplier does that mean that i somehow have already created my own key and didnt even know it?Basically, that is why I am confused. It is simply not possible to generate a key without knowing it, as you will have to fill-in information such as key-size, user-id, etc. You will also have to provide keyboard/mouse input to help with entropy generation. So, no, it's not possible to generate a key, and not know it. Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>PGP-Key: 4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22Key fingerprint = D870 C6AC CC6E 46B0 E0C7 3955 B8F1 D88E BBF7 433BPGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090