====== PGP ====== **The following article contains the PGP Public Key pertaining to the author of this wiki.** __You may contact the author at:__ //**CPI@cock.li**// //(Address potentially subject to change.)// Because of the nature of the [[:Internet]], such as it is, you may wish to keep any conversation to me unable to be read by anyone but me — this could be due to the sensitive nature of the content you're sending me, or simply as an exercise in good Net Communication hygiene (as overkill as it may be). In order to do this, you can e-mail me using PGP, arguably the gold standard for end-to-end encryption((Perhaps not entirely infallible, but sufficiently bulletproof to not be an issue for essentially 100% of the visitors of this place.)), to obfuscate the contents of your message. PGP is known for being very effective at the expense of user friendliness, to the point that attempting to concisely explain how to send me an encrypted email with it suddenly becomes a rather difficult task as the step-by-step varies between software, operating systems, implementations... If you have no idea how PGP works, [[https://www.varonis.com/blog/pgp-encryption/|this article explains it rather well.]] To make it //very// short, I have a pair of Public and Private Keys. You use the Public Key to encrypt the message, and I use the Private Key to decrypt it once I receive it. Some e-mail clients, and even some web clients, have their own implementation of PGP which may help you in the process; otherwise, there's still plenty of software that helps you expedite the process of generating key pairs and encrypting/decrypting by hand. For example, I use [[https://www.openpgp.org/software/kleopatra/|Kleopatra]] in both Windows and Linux which is email software-agnostic and could even use it to decrypt text sent through another way; meanwhile, the cock.li mailhost provider suggests [[https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/|Enigmail]], which works as a plugin for a handful of email software. ===== Public Key ===== -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQGNBGBKvLkBDACsiZWSWjyu65bzvQMbBjLtGoB4jwZEBix526W4EnSMotdJ48kf ZuzL7rqn5+6WW+hboo3G51Wl9+OxHw3p/rwS3Q1oX1isfe9RVv4O8IjM7tm5VTLK 1v+rXbXd5vwqyTt6g+zXDxFgaESAdnjftW9aEGM9kEVu7oQb5vwvBoXBLyBXF4q1 N3qfrgCpfWmgctTb+hRDNc8HA6uqxMcwcwX8Qfd0vvWzn6FT90xCqU+xs5nmsjt9 TrbCZgmj9Xmd4mPoF9bDeJFlVUlmqEUxZuPfsllR1SXveH1XM/ct7fQaAeeamlG0 XLEPd0kRpDbk1O2kIHnR4Ag9NcPmMzcisZFVhufl+7tlBxX/BK0iOF6U/eULqQzX RT17gPi0AEF4jmqXuHCPJFE7IzXZ4yEBb2Yr7LvRYaCg/7MpighCJ1FSjK+2XDE7 HnAgPfg52+hZcRgIrdRIwnZnip7iLXOW4ZB9/VlWfy4uUP10IzJmGvLJA1hY+IBo dTx8zOilQ7tP2wcAEQEAAbQuQ29tcGVuZGl1bSBvZiBQZXJzb25hbCBJZ25vcmFu Y2UgPENQSUBjb2NrLmxpPokB1AQTAQgAPhYhBJnx/ljEmH3U7fnblVdhzwWkd5iI BQJgSry5AhsDBQkHhZM4BQsJCAcCBhUKCQgLAgQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEFdhzwWk d5iIP5gL/AzRf00XMthhasZ17yX6CdItMHY1FmElKUUZrZppyWwpfqhIsuodg6B+ XmWBrfKkiiuYW8R6a5vi+sTkdlWOzKSfEc+NBnmIROHPjlP8ITjHn9rvx8p8JYie 1Iq2J/mvcP5q8dAzUAzmnKeiPBUaDfIUgTWhg6ukNCu5p3Kds9+iTCnDUqSqmayI lj1CHdXpJuA5Ny8V7kEwGS2xODKXVAQfioxDXupGwyBKfqeUwDZoosSPoMngSxDB Ed59NzJxiXl39wb7BTzmDIjIPaREgR5e/rPmVs1OjTJOYzDgkyOIrvjZ7vJp1IGE 2quJXdaVQIi/4SuZPyJR3LnUT1+lV1QXb8JtUY2NNOuLbxT5n7CufEWrROzHUiT1 u2YaFNQzJj+y9y/SzdEJDGztQzA0mgcsGF5BDMIPVzegrXbY4DxW8yGkS/n6jaX/ u7T0cZhDTLbBCFhBqALVb/dEPyhghkHPbjBBcuEUrKvKs3Jb/z5aTAOfEYE0QSdy N7g3TUiubrkBjQRgSry5AQwApmLnmUKk2Nnrv7LpU1K66vrqE7DpoJsknO0fTcEl q2N3dAvyxgkXTC6IxTzwegvkePdI7s0PDfyJtf+7bnCjKtj8gA8comieNS287Ro4 mkQ3LzoQccSwCTxU4BFEkyaNEZHo+iRRMhQXwitu5mhMWLx02IMPOQnElfdKFd4F mV9YDEESfZHJOFPqfCq8hBrSZz46t/zpfifLFr0drbGTjZHlINZcb5LgAwfAEINy KRE7rS0m9MUENeIgBkoBkmUTMq195/7DoB6lPFQeyFFKdMjhl5cOb+D5GdyZ0apH tfJbnrKnaxdQ14EBD01799Ectq4DXFR6Cv6LUsCCk4yKt21/ceQrIIyc9e3CU7wq uD7zFDfU9hj5NigesKbGYiZoZIeC0ZJzD1ZbchZ4kW2Z2o8HYmRq0cNaaj6VzI7d uIwsPQUY1YFsDvo+T0ccqXET2Vz6/h5VoVZFu8tWi3LoloXHOonAAW0B3pFRtgOZ BSM5u+WbG/d4zizZHxCyVisnABEBAAGJAbwEGAEIACYWIQSZ8f5YxJh91O3525VX Yc8FpHeYiAUCYEq8uQIbDAUJB4WTOAAKCRBXYc8FpHeYiMcsC/4nW1amrh9gZyOz rUN/se59MWR9MhRO9tRZTqU11mqNopgZZd8BCkMiZzjTazSaJ7c/wkMXnwEKxrEH Wlh2DEjev/qmrZSpaf0z/GQoIGiEM0PPM2dpHGBRLSvMs2tsdLR/BiUVGPo5mnAh x5fegdWXg2y4Ic20q5m5SrGhBnvQrIfUQQs1X832Raray4C8hWEOGnnA+0lGyDsj f80tYXFmX9Juaxuz03GaLPiwAoDdhNS/65Abb47LF5RMZFd/yb0exwwYx9tDenfC WighUEVUoth4y4U2U+o0wZYuaNfLisRIOT+JKT+J644cAAegLl2gaWoLPwnQocyj /451H2m6GP0tAUoBh+fCWwApFRtaR5Ultda0qkoJ3uOOcyvEfFWbM0e7+BO43e+0 JwJNubvaUWjN2IMm1KTpbzdxGRrNzNJD5376amntCJgj+gaDthFGX3eWztZ6qk1W AdEPjMUBNVYnttmojCKgX8lDAEhNO3hutOrndnMyV2Bj7jIg+6s= =JZo5 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ===== Some Words of Caution, and Some Things of Note ===== Your **email address and subject line** are **NOT** encrypted by PGP and **CANNOT** be encrypted by PGP. This is a **design limitation of the IMAP/SMTP email protocols** and **not** a PGP one. **DO NOT** contact me with an e-mail address that could be traced to [[internet:Personally-Identifiable Information]] if it is not your intention to do so! **DO NOT** put sensitive information in the e-mail's subject line if it is not your intention to do so! * If you wish for me to reply in the same fashion, **I will also need your PGP Public Key**, which you will have to generate along with your Private Key and then send in your email to me((Your Public Key, not your Private Key! Your Private Key is not to be shared! If I have to point this out to you then you may not be ready to use PGP in the first place!)). **Make sure you tell me that you're expecting an equally encrypted answer** in case the nature of the conversation doesn't make it glaringly obvious. I am not a clever man. * The need to add PGP arises mostly out of concern raised by acquaintances regarding my (most likely temporary) choice of e-mail provider, as the structure and organization of [[https://cock.li|cock.li]] is such that its owner could read my e-mails' content at any given time. To this I concede that it is indeed a true and valid concern: Mr. Canfield of cock.li, or any other individual pertaining to OvO Systems Ltd. who may have direct access to the mailservers could, in theory, go through my email. However, it's imperative that I point out that **this is also true of virtually every other email service**, and **//especially//** those pertaining to major, well-known Internet companies (e.g. GMail and the like). Email protocols //per se// do not offer encryption services, so your messages could be freely intercepted as they're being sent between servers and downloaded/read by your email client of choice, either by people in charge of these servers or an external malicious actor or actors. There are very few, if any, services that guarantee content-blindness at a server level (so-called "zero access encryption") so as to be protected from prying eyes even when stored in the servers((Protonmail offers, or at least claims to offer, this sort of encryption, and has their own PGP implementation; however, most of their features remained paywalled. Lavabit, known for being obliterated by the US Government for providing email services to Edward Snowden, also offered (for a fee) zero-access encryption, but did not have measures to encrypt messages as they traveled using the SMTP protocol.)). PGP encryption, while cumbersome, remains the best for the purpose of ensuring privacy whether you actually need it or if you simply wish to exercise your entitlement to the privacy of your words.