Quote from: eJ3k1 on July 29, 2012, 09:19 amQuote from: nate25 on July 29, 2012, 02:40 amwhats the different between my public key and my privite key???The idea of asymmetric encryption (that's what PGP is), is that you have two keys, key A and key B.Something that's encrypted with key A, can be decrypted with key B.(And also vice versa, if you encrypt something with key B, it can be decrypted with key A)Now you make key A public, everybody can have it. This is your public key.Key B you keep secret, only you know it, and you don't share it with anyone. Now you can do two interesting things:1) Encryption. If somebody wants to write you a secret message, he can encrypt it with key A, your public key. Then he can send the message to you, and only you can decrypt it, because only you have key B. This way the information is secret if the message is intercepted.2) Signing. You can also encrypt a message with key B, your private key. This does not help to keep the information secret, because everybody can decrypt it with key A, the public key. However it does something else. Because if the public can decrypt the message using key A, they know for sure it was encrypted using key B (your private key). This means that we can be sure that it was you who released the message, and nobody else, because only you have Key B, so only you could have encrypted the message.That is also very useful, because in that way, you can always be sure you are dealing with the same person in this anonymous world.Correct! karma++ attack! :)