On 4/1/17 11:22 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Hello Will, I'll answer 1. 2. and 4. (3. is beyond my knowledge): > > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 09:10:55AM -0500, Will Senn wrote: >> 1. It seems that the keyservers never forget. In creating keypairs while >> trying to figure this out every few years and then forgetting the >> passwords or losing the private keys and revocation certificates (which >> at the time, I didn't understand the ramifications of and was definitely >> not careful enough), it seems like I've left a bit of litter out there. >> Do I just move on and try not to do that in the future, or is there any >> hope for cleaning up? > You got it correctly, they indeed "never forget". Littering is something > which many folks do from time to time (I think Phil Zimmermann himself, > the creator of PGP, has an unrevoked/unrecoverable key in the servers). > Just carry on and you will be fine! > >> 2. In everyday use, what is the norm for folks to publish their keys to >> get other folks to use them? Do y'all put the fingerprint in your >> emails, attach your signatures (I see some of you on this list do), put >> the key on your social media, or what? > There are a handful of options: fingerprint in the sig, mail headers > (like `X-PGP-Key:`), advertising on social media or on your personal > site. > I chose the latter, but fingerprints/key IDs are so short they fit > in a Twitter bio, so I'd say all are valid choices. > If you advertise it to the "general public", maybe you want to link > to a tutorial too, so people who have never used PGP can quickly learn > how to send messages to you (that's what I did [1]). > >> 4. Is it safe to refer to my public key/fingerprint information as I did >> in the previous question with output from gpg? > Yep. > > > [1] http://ariis.it/static/articles/1-2-3-PGP/page.html > Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the answers.
Will
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