PGP Keys

Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:59:59 -800

I made some PGP keys for myself today, and am now using them to sign all
outgoing e-mail. Why do this, you ask? The unauthenticated nature of
internet mail delivery has often bothered me--there is nothing built into
the protocols that provides for any verification that a message was actually
sent by the supposed author. Spammers, kiddiez and the like can slap pretty
much anything onto a message. With PGP, I can now sign my messages, so the
recipients *know* that a message came from me. Or that it did _not_ come
from me. Thunderbird, Mozilla, Netscape 7 and Outlook all have plugins that
will verify PGP signatures, so setup should not be too big of a hassle; see
Google (or me) for details. See my
public key. I should also
note that with PGP, I can encrypt entire emails.