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I made a gpg Hat (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they have it on a hat, in real life, then it's linked to their real identity. They might just want to keep it separate from Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, but I think it would be extremely easy to identify them from the strings of dozens of identical letters still visible on the hat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You would need to know the whole key to know. If there are blocks missing you cant get anything from a key. And you would half to see in in real life to corelate my user alias to my real identity. Which i originally going to use a key that i have for online accounts (a key for steamy) But i then realized that would then have my online account linked to my real identity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, if I met you I'd never know! It could be one of thousands others with the same hat!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you know part of a fingerprint you can look up keys, but I don't know of a way to look up keys from partial keys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats if the key was uploaded to a keyserver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes? How else would you look up anything if it hadn't been uploaded somewhere?