New Feature: My GnuPG Public Key

Well, I’ve been playing around with Encryption these days, and I finally got around to implementing GnuPG encryption for my email. It’s taken some time, and a lot of work on my part to get it right, but I finally did it.

My public PGP Encryption Key (right click and “SaveAs”)

I’m doing this because I’m terrified of the Government’s far reaching influence and the slow erosion of things like personal privacy. You send me an email, I can read it on my server. That’s fine. But so can all the administrators of the server, so can the people who own the programs residing on that server, and so can anyone who has admin access. A Federal subpoena (and even those without one in some cases) can force the companies to present them with that information and those emails. And I wouldn’t know about it.

The only way to safeguard myself from that is to start using encryption.

Unfortunately, I can’t set up Daven’s Journal to send me encrypted emails from the email form page without buying a lot of specialized software and certificates and so on, which I really don’t have the money for. So, I tell you this:

My email address is all over this site. I have about 400 + pages and of those, there are a lot that have my email address on it, even if the link for the email address goes to the email page. Use your brain and copy that address, put it into your email program’s “To” field, use the public key to encrypt the information you are sending me, and send the email. Do this for important stuff, things that you would be embarrassed or upset if it got out. But use it. If you can’t find my email, it is daven (at) davensjournal (dot) com

And find out about online communication security. It’s becoming more and more necessary these days.

This was originally posted on Mar 08, 2006. This is a repost, but the links are current, and the sentiment is the same.