Wednesday, September 19, 2007

PGP/GPG Encrypt Me....

It's amazing what technology makes you go through just to secure your shizzle. I actually knew people who knew Phil Zimmerman when he was getting flack about publishing/writing/creating PGP back in the early 90's (I believe the story goes that he shared the same attorneys as one of my friend in the group we were in)...

So when I finally got back on the net I, of course, downloaded PGP and put up a public key onto pgp.mit.edu. Heh... that was long ago and I've had 2 keys lost since then. So last night was the search to try and revoke lost keys. The way that it's designed, there is no way you can revoke a key without the secret key (which were lost to the floppy discs of time).

Therefore, I had to create NEW keys with information in them saying that the OLD keys were no longer valid, sign them then publish them onto the PGP keyservers. What a pain in the ass! Then on top of that, I have to get my NEW keys signed and authenticated.

Which made me thing... hmm.. we have MySpace.. but the problem is that even though I know these people, PGP is no where simple enough for everyday encryption. It takes a bit of education just to get them to create a key, sign it, post it up THEN have people sign YOUR key with THEIR key so you can start building your "Web of Trust".

Really, trust starts with identity verification then works outward...

I remember places where if you had a notarized copy of your license/passport and sent it into a key signing company, you could build that web of trust. Those places are long gone. Instead they do parties now where one can "sign" your certificate. Still not easy enough for most people but it's better than nothing.

I wonder if there is a way to do a "Web of Trust" that can involve current technology. There's gotta be a better way...

And on that note... my PGP/GPG public key:

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Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

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

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Maiden Voyages...

I guess I should have practice breaking in new blogs. After all, I maintain 2 others on a semi-regular basis (an update at least once a season). But this is for my webpage so I should say something here to start things off...

WELCOME!

Well that was horrific. But what do you expect! The real content is on the site.

What will be contained here are various tidbits I'm working on and the info/details for it.

So stay tuned...