OK, I'm running PGP 2.3a on an SGI Indigo R4000 (not that the machine really matters, but it might help). My keys were generated with PGP 2.2 (on teh Mac), and I have since (obviously) upgraded to 2.3 then to 2.3a. I just recently started to encrypt a lot of things with my own public key, and also noticed that the files encrypted with my pubkey were not necessarily decypherable by my secret key. I replaced my keyrings from backups make a while ago (they're just missing most of my public keys), and still no luck. I get the following error: Pretty Good Privacy 2.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses. (c) 1990-1993 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1 Jul 93 Date: 1993/09/30 05:14 GMT File is encrypted. Secret key is required to read it. Key for user ID: Nathaniel David Sammons <nate@VIS.ColoState.Edu> 1022-bit key, Key ID AE9C65, created 1993/05/24 You need a pass phrase to unlock your RSA secret key. Enter pass phrase: Pass phrase is good. Just a moment... Error: RSA-decrypted block is corrupted. This may be caused either by corrupted data or by using the wrong RSA key. For a usage summary, type: pgp -h For more detailed help, consult the PGP User's Guide. What the hell? Sometimes it will decrypt the file (and sometimes not). I am very reluctant to issue a key-revocation certificate, since I would like to avoid this as much as possible, but it's not looking good. This is really worrying me. The data I encrypted is not that important, but it's still a MAJOR problem I am having. thanks, -nate -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------- | Nate Sammons email: nate@VIS.ColoState.Edu | Colorado State University Computer Visualization Laboratory | Finger nate@monet.VIS.ColoState.Edu for my PGP key | #include <std.disclaimer> | Always remember "Brazil" +----------------------+