On 02/26/16, mark lewis pondered and said...
 
 ml>  PH> that. Use my Private key to encrypt something that can be unlocked by
 ml>  PH> the PUBLIC key. It would appear gpg4win does not allow this and in a
 ml>  PH> way I can understand why as it flys in the face of what I think the
 ml>  PH> PUBLIC vs PRIVATE keys are to be used for (I think)

 ml> i was able to export my keyrings from my pgp and import them into this
 ml> gpg... i imported your signature, too... then i tried decrypting that
 ml> message but apparently this is what you were talking about above...

Yep. Using the windows UI it seems there is only one option and thats encode
using others public certificates and also include my own so I can open as
well what I encode if I want.

 ml> details... it looks like encrypting with the public key is the only way
 ml> allowed now... but as long as it has been, i may be confusing some
 ml> things... even in the old pgp documentation i have, it says that signing
 ml> is done with the secret key (of course) and then encryption is done with
 ml> the recipient's public key... more than one recipient can be specified,
 ml> too... it has been a really long time, though...

Yep you encrypt with their public and your private, they decode with their
private key and your public one. That seems to be the way.

 ml> heck, my key was generated in 1992 and has only been updated a couple of
 ml> times since then... i need to update it again with a new email address
 ml> as well as indicating that the old one is no longer valid... i gotta
 ml> figure out how to do that all over again and then try to get it back
 ml> over here into gpg... no way in hell i'm going to try to go the other
 ml> way from gpg to pgp... probably wouldn't work anyway :lol:

Yep I found a couple I created some time ago and one I will likely never be
able to remove and have long since lost the private key. The other (more of a
test) I had the foresight to make it expire a couple of years in the future
from when I created it.

 ml> ok, got my key updated but it is really weird that pgp shows the new
 ml> items at the top of the list and gpg shows them at the bottom where
 ml> they're likely to be missed... hummm...

Not sure about this...

When I tried to import your PGP key into gpg4win it borked and did not like
it. I'll try it again now.

[time passes]

what I am trying to suck in won't work and it says it's a cert without a user
ID.

I'll keep trying but for now I seem unable to progress setting up a public
certificate entry in my software for you. 

[time passes]

I found an entry for waldo kitty with a key ID of B60C20C5 but it won't
import. There are other entries for Mark Lewis but it's unclear which if any
are yours.

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