PGP Public Key

It’s not a surprise that governments in general want to monitor what happens on the Internet. I always took the stance that anything that goes over unproctected and unencrypted channel was basically public. Private things need to be encrypted. This is why I am a big proponent of using SSL to protect communications while they are in flight.

This does nothing to protect data once it has reached the server though. This is particularly important with dealing with emails. Any email in the clear should be treated as something public, regardless of provider being used. It turns out that it is particularly true when using large email services like GMail and Google Apps for your domain.

The solution is to use encryption as a means to hide the content of the message from prying eyes, including those of the government.

It does bring some attention to you, but that is ok. As a foreigner living in the US, having used encryption in many other contexts, I am sure that I am already on plenty of lists.

So here’s my public PGP key:

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-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin)
Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org

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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Here is a link to the key. It is also published on keys.gnupg.net