Quote from: meatwad on September 24, 2012, 10:06 pmOk, thank you to all who replied. I believe I get it now. To read a persons encrypted message I only need their public key, they dont need mine to send me a encrypted message that I can read. Correct?No. You don't need somebody's public key to read a message from them. You just need your private key. They have encrypted a message using your public key. Then you decrypt it using your private key. When you send them an encrypted message, it is exactly the same thing, only that you're using their public key.