Copyright © 1996 Jeff Makey. All rights reserved.

Jeff Makey's PGP Page

I have two PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) keys, one for personal use and one for business use. My secret personal key is kept on my home computer, which is fairly safe, but this means I have to be physically at home to use it. My secret business key is conveniently kept on the file server at work, so it is regularly vulnerable to all sorts of attacks, but I try to be careful about how I use it in order to minimize the risk of it being compromised. I have a copy of my secret business key at home, too. I sign messages with whichever key is handy.

If you wish to send me an encrypted message you should generally use my business key except when the message is extremely un-work-related (say, a job offer or a lewd proposition). To get my personal key from an independent source you can finger makey@cts.com, or check with a PGP public key server for either key. The e-mail address for my personal Internet account is jeff@cts.com. If you're sending me a personal PGP-encrypted message it doesn't matter much to me whether you send it there or to jeff@sdsc.edu (my account at work), but you should realize that I sometimes go for several days without reading the mail at my personal account. Business-related correspondence should always be sent to my work account, PGP-encrypted or not.

PGP thrives on anarchy, but the PGP.NET pages are probably the closest thing that can be found to an official source of PGP information.

PGP Key Signing Policy

Every PGP key I have signed (all 4 of 'em) belongs to someone I have known personally for at least a year. I can vouch that the person who owns a public key I have signed has the name and e-mail address that is covered by my signature.

This document was last updated by Jeff Makey <jeff@sdsc.edu> on 22 May 1996.
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