You got a PGP? Yea, you know me …
I signed up over at the new forums for BlogAzoo. I started entering information into my personal profile up there and saw that they wanted a PGP key (Pretty Good Privacy).
I have a limited understanding of what this is all about. It has to do with sending signed messages as well as encrypting messages so that only the recipient can decrypt the message. The recipient also has the ability to verify that the message actually came from the sender.
I downloaded the freeware program from the PGP people for personal use. If anyone wants to bother with it - this is my public key:
—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
Version: PGP 8.1 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.commQGiBEH93owRBADo0Rjcl3DE/panS6FJbwd2JFZYLUNum5WsF5D9Yf5YTxU+2hUF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×8vYlLIhkmuquiXsNV
6TILOwACAgf+L78S2iAyqZDaRsWtlpZqVhuyqkOQhp3RstlxW89ck1Sp/96w7HKP
VzkAnFmgeJNz+WEiVEZvTzRAAVje1e6RAvtWAY2OyxqokpoFCc70+HP7NCsFGJxK
USGS4gkTdPspQwfqL8zqNVYCFqGCwyQ7nHQzzO2yfIzprY9hy3r7Hm4SnzwZvjnG
nsATBXZppatdD2sNlXjJ4RsjV66j4O9z+KbRcMCXGMrta75i+7qQqwdE5Nk5W+pV
QbM/KlELUR+y7AsIY8R39T+67MRCXW50jZYkNPSUiP8DQSSLrOtnsU4RNxAtO2Hk
Eczw23NwGCsvIP9LpaEuZMKnxh2C1uiooIkATAQYEQIADAUCQf3ejAUbDAAAAAAK
CRB5zfgDXKzBFCq+AKCnczLk5y+7Kuh8jhx6Yry6Dosi4ACfSwir1nBXVBZM7MoL
t440illS1T4=
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—–END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
Yea, I’m sure that this all made perfect sense to just about everyone who visits my blog. Does anyone still use this? I have a few certificates as well for reading email and viewing web pages. I don’t use them to communicate with anyone though. It isn’t like I have anything to hide to that is extreamly sensitive.
January 31st, 2005 at 4:44 pm
JUDGE THE JUDGE!!!!!
http://judge-mental.blogspot.com/ …
It’s His Turn Now!!
January 31st, 2005 at 5:39 pm
Oh my god - get over it. Just be greatful that you are getting hits from his site.
January 31st, 2005 at 9:44 pm
I do. Well, actually I used to use GNU Privacy Guard with Thunderbird. It’s a sort of a replacement for PGP. It doesn’t use patented algorithms, so it can be used freely without any legal issues.
I noticed that at first I had to really make myself use encryption and signing, once it became a routine there was no problems.
Mostly I used signing since I also don’t really have much I have to encrypt.
February 1st, 2005 at 1:28 am
I have no idea what PGP is, but the title to this post had me ROFL. Seriously, that was funny!
February 1st, 2005 at 1:28 am
P.S.–That was me in the above comment.