Anton's PGP Key

Computers make it harder and harder to keep your privacy. If you're interested in keeping your conversations private, PGP is a good place to start.

PGP is a piece of software which can encrypt text or data files being sent to someone else. Unlike most encryption software, it uses "public-key" encryption. This means that you can publish an encryption key for other people (whom you might not even know) to send you encrypted mail. You don't need to give them a private key in advance. Only you can decrypt a message which was encrypted with your key (using a second, paired, key).

If you'd like to send me encrypted mail, my PGP key is at the bottom of this page. Actually, I have two keys; one of them is for my work account. Please use only that one if you send mail there;I suspect that employers might be able to legally force employees to give up keys used for mail which flows through a company-owned mail system.

If you own a Macintosh (or MacOS-compatible), you may want to check out FileCrypt (now SafeMail), by HIGHWARE Inc. It makes PGP much easier to use. PGP 6.5 (available free for noncommercial use) also has a good Macintosh implementation.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.2, by FileCrypt 1.0
 
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=XNqa
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
 

If you've got PGP 5.0 or later, here's my newer public key. The key formats have changed in the new version, because of some patent issues, but it should be interoperable with the older version.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>

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=eRfU
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
ABR