I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!) And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!
Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.
The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!
I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.
I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.
Hope you enjoy My little project >:) hehe
I guess I, too, am still not certain why you would censor it. The whole point to the public key is to publish it. Most people upload their’s to multiple public key servers.
They meant that they wanted to do a test to see if they would get any gpg-encrypted emails from people who saw the hat in real life; the “experiment” doesn’t work if you allow internet strangers to email you too, as then you don’t know where a person may have gotten the email address/key from
That makes sense
If they have it on a hat, in real life, then it’s linked to their real identity. They might just want to keep it separate from Lemmy.
True, but I think it would be extremely easy to identify them from the strings of dozens of identical letters still visible on the hat.
You would need to know the whole key to know. If there are blocks missing you cant get anything from a key. And you would half to see in in real life to corelate my user alias to my real identity. Which i originally going to use a key that i have for online accounts (a key for steamy) But i then realized that would then have my online account linked to my real identity
Yeah, if you know part of a fingerprint you can look up keys, but I don’t know of a way to look up keys from partial keys.
Thats if the key was uploaded to a keyserver.
Yes? How else would you look up anything if it hadn’t been uploaded somewhere?
Yeah, if I met you I’d never know! It could be one of thousands others with the same hat!