GPG / PGP Public key
Feb 1, 2013 · 2 minute readCategory: security
Sending confidential information across the Internet is always risky as you never really know who or what may intentionally or accidentally look at a copy of your communication at some points.
Various tactics can be used to reduce the risk when sending confidential information. The current approach accepted by most people is the use of PGP or GPG. PGP and GPG are commercial and open source (respectively) implementations of asymmetric encryption system specifically designed to work with visible text communication.
Asymmetric cryptography works by using a key pair. When some thing is encrypted using one of the keys only the other key can be used to decrypt the encrypted text. This allows you to give away your public key to any one and every one and know that any thing some one encrypts with it cannot be retrieved any one other than your self. It is currently technically infeasible, and has stood up to 10 years of scrutiny so far, to determine one of the keys of a pair when having one of them.
The only real trouble after using this system is communicating the public key and knowing it has not been tampered with.
If you need to send Edmonds Commerce any confidential information securely feel free to encrypt it with our public key:
—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
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