Quote from: jjwentworth on July 14, 2013, 04:51 pmhi guys im trying to do the community a favor and learn this encryption bullshit. i know theres already hundreds of threads on pgp tutorials but i need help in lamens terms. i downloaded gpg4win. it only gave me a private key. the key is like 6 letters and numbers hardly the 12 lines of letters and numbers im accustomed to seeing on vendors pages stating there public keys. it also never gave me a public key so i assumed i would just make a new key and designate one of those keys to being my public key and the origional one supllied to me to be my private key. again the second key generated was only like 6 letters and numbers not the 12 lines im used to seeing. as of this point can someone tell me if they think im doing this right up till this point? im also having trouble sending a message to my friend who is also just trying to learn this but ill save that issue until someone can tell me if what i explained so far sounds correct. please helpForget GPG4WIN and download GPG4USB. It's a far more intiutive interface -- you'll be up and running with it in minutes. http://gpg4usb.cpunk.de/index.htmlNightcrawler4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22 Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B   (MIT clearnet keyserver)PGP Key: https://keys.indymedia.org/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B  (IndyMedia https: clearnet keyserver)PGP Key: http://qtt2yl5jocgrk7nu.onion/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB8F1D88EBBF7433B (IndyMedia .onion keyserver)PGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090  (Silk Road Forums PGP Key Link)PGP Key Fingerprint = 83F8 CAF8 7B73 C3C7 8D07 B66B AFC8 CE71 D9AF D2F0