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Just learned how to move my gpg private key securely from one machine to another.

#cryptography #privacy #geek

Every small victory is important. The fact that someone is even using encryption, in a more pure sense, like creating public and private keys on your machine, is great.

Tools like this are going to become more important going forward, given the increased surveillance state. People who know these tools are going to have the best chance at protecting themselves, and helping those they care about.

Keep working at it. Another good challenge is getting your public keys listed online. Creating a github page, which uses encryption keys is good practice. Even if you are not a coder, the exercise is worth the time.

#cybersecurity #privacy #encryption

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 2y ago

Thanks! Small victory, indeed. I created gpg keypairs locally, revoked old ones and added new using Curve25519 recently -- mostly for learning/experimentation. I only use them to sign files locally now (private journal). I've thought about putting them on a keyserver, but I also have a separately generated keypairs tied to my email address provided by the email service vendor. So I haven't really thought through which keypair to make "official" and push to a keyserver...

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 2y ago

...just created an ed25519 keypair to sign my commits to GitHub, commits now verified! Another small victory.

#cybersecurity #privacy #encryption