Keys

If you need to get in touch, I'd rather you used my public keys—I get a lot of spam and its the easiest way to get me to pay attention. The keys have also been uploaded to the usual keyservers…

joseph.hallett@bristol.ac.uk Public Key

bogwonch@bogwonch.net Public Key

Why Johnny Can't maybe should give Encrypt -ing a go…

There is a famous paper that says PGP is hard to use. I have a bit of an issue with bits of the study (bunging UNIX tools into Classic Mac apps has never been particularly usable); but there are, undoubtably, more usable tools if you need secure communication nowadays.

That said, I still like and use PGP—and it lets you do a bunch more things that Signal can't (signatures for one). If you integrate it into a mail client, many of the wrappers make it pretty easy. If you read the man pages it is no worse than other, older, command-line tools.

Give it a go. Tricky things become easier with practice. There is a manual.

Alma Whitten and J. Doug Tygar. "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0." USENIX Security Symposium. 1999.

GNU Privacy Guard Handbook