Hey 👋
When you generate your key pair, you input your email and that gets tied to the key.
So, just the key is enough … I can look up your email from key servers
Discussion
ah ok, i see, in this case i did uploaded to keys.openpgp.org but what if i didnt and how would you know which key server i uploaded it to?
I am not sure what happens if you don’t upload your key 🤔
But if it’s uploaded to even 1 key server, a user can use a tool like Kleopatra to look up your email. Kleopatra is part of the GPG4WIN software for Windows. It’s a free software for lookup, encryption, decryption
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 🤷🏻♂️
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