Call me paranoid, but I always go for ROT-54 at least.  I run mission critical 
data through ROT-2600.



> On Aug 16, 2015, at 5:03 PM, David McNab <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Why worry about public/private key encryption?
> I've used ROT-26 encryption for years, and it's simple and has never let me 
> down ;)
> 
> 
>> On 17 August 2015 at 08:18, john lunzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I understand their general purpose but not why that xkcd strip is funny. 
>> What are people using them for, why post your public key? I've encountered 
>> public/private key use for encryption a couple times, and it wasn't funny. 
>> 
>>> On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 11:16:58 AM UTC-4, Jacob Peck wrote:
>>>> On 8/16/2015 11:11 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:52 PM, john lunzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> I don't get it (even after doing research), I'm definitely not cool 
>>>>> enough for the internet, but xkcd often makes me feel like an inferior 
>>>>> life form.
>>>> 
>>>> ​Private keys must remain private. Otherwise, anyone could read what       
>>>>           you have encrypted.
>>> Or, worse, anyone could encrypt or sign something and have it appear to all 
>>> the world that you did it (thus the hover text). Private key = identity in 
>>> many cases.
>>> -->Jake
>>>> EKR
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