Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Halt, PGPzeit!

I've finally gone the extra geek-mile and got myself all suited up for PGP (including my Mail.app client), meaning that the paranoid security-conscious amongst you can now send me signed or encrypted email, files, etc...

I've generated two key-pairs for your pleasure use, for which you'll find the public keys below.

For egrefen@gmail.com (2048 bit encryption): (download key)
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)

mQGiBEasQqsRBADZDK8Gpouy8QjvUfyneHcMonrBDsUb+VwVAwdO/FQUmTcdHukY
Ox2FY9CRtQ04BJn1NCtjSMRGItWyZYT8Z0X3CqI5f+OQ2/ZtCFSaC2n4JDuSXLG7
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CrTsA/wJ9Mj1PUoa4HhhiJeIVhll98+xjHD5oNGj7BRlVz4fKAcJi5J3DRKLtloQ
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DAAKCRBVnaWqCOI/buSXAJ0RFBub0V8zMEwV6uLmaI87yheCogCgjXCpNFUrxBUT
D9LRsb/1//JVyQI=
=2hpn
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----


And the higher security version...
For edward@egrefen.com (4096 bit encryption): (download key)
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)

mQGiBEasjiURBAD+ZZRP4NuoB9ad1JdJRcONnQX+Epm06ffHj37I14DvkQ11nsP4
7lQ+S+BT3SvEp7cWDKdgjzlTTFit1mHD1VhrkSERFWC7TFD0PSZYyyoFcnmExOpY
9nZ/1O99I38CdfigMaYShT0l6QA21zDt6JsDAld47Xbz9ehp8OBXJRwofwCgxc59
zxlZlaMS8ZX+NxNNCFuScPcD/2LIWsVXPSJ8Nw/rjlfgHHY9ZdR49j3GaVcApGPi
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bV703FsfiU/0sc6h
=/F5a
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----


Of course, either key can be used to send messages to either email, or to encrypt any file coming my way. A copy of them should be on most public key servers anyway, in case you're too lazy to save these, or have software that manages all this just fine for you.

Speaking of which, if you're an OS X user, this stuff is actually incredible easy to set up on your system (aaah, the joys of UNIX-like systems), and to integrate to Mail.app, etc... I'll make a post with some links in the near future.

That said, I don't think I ever plan on doing anything which really requires using PGP on a regular basis, but I'm sure it'll come in handy now and then.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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