You seem to be using encrypt/decrypt interchangeably. You had said: > You need his public key to "decrypt" it. My correction assumed that you had made a typo

You seem to be using encrypt/decrypt interchangeably. You had said: > You need his public key to "decrypt" it. My correction assumed that you had made a typo when you said "decrypt". Also you only need the recipients public key to encrypt the message. [0] [0] http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/ http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/