Thank you Cairan,
That was very informative and I think you have brought me up to speed on
it.
One of the reasons I had issues was because although I could search
people's names I could not find them from their Key ID. Having never
used it before I assume my ignorance to be the fault. This turned
OpenPGP is the standard that both PGP (a proprietary product) and
GnuPG use. As they operate on the same standard keys generated in
either work in both.
If you wan to send an encrypted message to someone you need to get
their key. If they have told you what their Key ID is then you can
pull it fro
