I recently acquired a new PGP key that you can use to create encrypted messages that only I can open. This move was spurred by my switch to Thunderbird, fueled by GMail’s newly added support for IMAP (now Yahoo! needs to follow along…). To sum it up, PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) uses public-key cryptography to create two keys: a private and a public one. Anyone can use the public key to encrypt a message, but only the holder of the private key can decrypt the encrypted message. You will need a PGP implementation such as GnuPG to send me encrypted messages.
My public key is:
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