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Posting my PGP key for 15 years Public key cryptography1 - xkcd

Background

[Spoiler]: Before the community of die-hard PGP2 users jump all over me, let me give you a little bit of background on this.

I've been using PGP for nearly 20 years. It was one of the few solutions that allowed me to avoid the invasive curiosity of our Chinese friends when I lived in China3. Around the same time, and for similar reasons, I also gave up Windows and switched my working environment to Linux.

  1. Cartoon explanation: when Cueball first created the key pair, he imagined it would be something he used from time to time, for reading messages only intended for him or for sending "signed" messages. Since nothing of the sort happened, he imagines releasing both keys might cause some activity, and at this point he is happier with a bad outcome than with a boring one - xkcd. ↩︎

  2. PGP here refers to OpenPGP - Wikipedia ↩︎

  3. China bans Microsoft Windows 8 on government computers - BBC ↩︎