Quote from: jagfug on August 20, 2013, 06:50 am[snip]PS - What nags me, and I don't know the technicalities, this is more of a simpletons common sense, so it might be flawed. - Everyone lists their public keys on one of these threads, right? - Well aren't these keys kind of like the 'ink that reveals the invisible ink' of your message? Right? Your public key, unlocks whatever message someone sends to you encrypted with it? SO, if some nefarious characters, like, I don't know, Diane Feinstein's a scary enough example, want to read your emails. Can't she or one of her lackeys just have already copied your public key? Now what good did that whole rigamarole of PGP do for you, besides provide a false sense of security. Please tell me what I'm missing, because it can't be that simply flawed. - I finally learned this thing, I WANT it to work![edited to remove one of the 0's from the amt of orders I claimed to have done - 1000 in my dreams!]FYI... Your public key is what other people use to encrypt messages to you. Your private key is what you use to decrypt messages encrypted with the corresponding public key. The security of the system is predicated on this separation of keys. FWIW, the idea of public key encryption was originally developed by Ellis & Cocks, at the UK GCHQ, Britain's NSA equivalent. The British considered this idea so important that they immediately classified it. It was later independently re-discovered by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, who published it in 1976, about half a dozen years after Ellis & Cocks originally submitted their proposal to GCHQ. You can think of PGP as a box which can be locked that you can freely give out to anyone you like; you are the only one that has the key to open these boxes, once they are locked. Nightcrawler4096R/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