They say, "send me your public key". I do send them said key, and they send me back a PGP encrypted file. When I go to open it, PGP complains an tells me that I lack the private keys to open the file.

The flaw occurs in the way PGP handles long file names in encrypted archives, Network Associates said on its site. PGP runs into problems when it tries to encrypt or decrypt files that have names ...

Users without PGP NetShare can copy files into protected folders, but those files are not encrypted until an authorized user modifies the file or re-encrypts the folder.

That's the only change. Thursday night, I encrypted this same directory and it was around 287 or so... Is there a theoretical limit to file size when making an encrpyted archive this way?