I have a PGP key now
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You can find links to it in ASCII-armoured form in my Gopherhole and
my Gemini capsule, and it's also discoverable via WKD and autocrypt,
which Posteo make blessedly easy!
It's not my intent to make a big deal out of this or to push anybody
else to do similarly. This post is, like the previous one about
the VF-1 1.0.0 release, just me celebrating getting another small
thing pushed off my year's TODO list at the last moment.
Over the years people have occasionally asked me if I have, or would
care to create, a key, or intimated that they'd be more comfortable
talking about something in particular if I did. I respect that
all day long, but I'll admit I have been putting this off as a
chore for a long time, mostly because of my roughly 20 year old
memories of what a usability nightmare GnuPG was back in the day.
Perhaps also because of a blog post[1] by Moxie Marlinspike from
nearly 10 years ago which kind of cemented that negative attitude.
I finally bit the bullet and did this, and it wasn't half as bad
as I expected! I'm happy to see ed25519 seems widely supported
these days, and I was astonished to receive an encrypted email
only a few days after my key became available via WKD/autocrypt
thanks to Posteo's support for these things, before I had put the
key up on any of my spaces. I guess this kind of thing was no
less possible in principle with the key servers in ye olde days,
but automated support by clients / service providers seems more
way more widespread now, it feels semi-magical!
Big thanks to Sandra for advice and patience with all my test mails!
[1]
https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html
