Good, basic test: Encrypt a message to yourself, then decrypt it. That way you can rule out local keyring issues. PGP/GPG is one of the few cases where I'll be a right bastard about insisting that my ...
Ciphertext file: message.pgp PGP asks for a pass phrase, which is simply a long password. The longer your pass phrase, the harder it will be for someone to guess it and decrypt the file. PGP produces ...