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I made a gpg Hat (lemmy.ml)
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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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it would be cool to encode your key as like a qr code so that folks can scan it.

Kinda loses the aesthetic of the classic gpg armor though

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah i thought about that! I have been playing with base64 encoding tho!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

An email address might be good too unless part of the key

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Could also be a short URL instead, e.g. https://lemmy.ml/post/31547467 or ideally something with keywords rather than UUID, even though here 8 digits isn't too bad.