but for me its too much work just to find out an email address 😂 , i think the best way is just give an email address and a link to the server to download the .asc file 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I’m still trying to understand the moving parts. I understand that PGP encryption has both symmetric and public key encryption. But how does it actually work. From your email or your public key, I can get the .asc file from the key server. Then do I encrypt a message using your .asc file?

yes, the sender and the recievers email clients are doing the encrypting and decrypting of the .asc file. what email client are you using?

I’m using Outlook and ProtonMail

outlook doesnt support pgp unless you have another external app to decrypt asc file

So .asc is the actual file that is used for encryption and decryption

yes basicly youre sending .asc file as attachment (whoever look into your message cant see whats inside the asc file) untile your recieve and decrypt it