My GPG Key - How I verify my presence online.
GPG Key Link to heading
Below is my public OpenPGP key. If for any reason, you sign my key with yours, please upload the key to nearly any keyserver pool, and send me a copy to my primary email listed in the key.
216A EA0B F8FA 9449 93D2 2FE8 B9D3 2ED3 8962 EC64
Here’s my full public key from Openpgp Since MIT’s is no longer maintaining their keyservers my keys are just on openpgp and the ubuntu keyservers at the moment.
This key was regenerated on 09/02/2017
. Previous keys from 2007 and 2003 are no longer valid
What is a GPG, OpenPGP, PGP key? Link to heading
All of them are essentially the same thing. They are used by governments, journalists, human rights groups and many others to make sure your emails, files and almost any other communication can only be seen by a single person/group. It is one of the most secure ways to communicate online.
They also can be used to log into the admin section of servers, sign commit messages when coding to prove you’re the person who really wrote the code, and many more uses.
For your everyday non-programmer usage read more at the Email Self-Defense page at the FSF or learn how to be truly safe at EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense Guide.