R. Paul Martin's PGP Public Key Page

PGP stands for “Pretty Good Privacy,” which is a program that helps ordinary citizens guard the privacy of our electronic communications.

UPDATE: I'm updating this on Friday, September 11, 2009, and I'm using GnuPG v1.4.9, which uses OpenPGP. I'm also using Enigmail for my E-mail encryption/signing chores. Well, it's a little bit more involved than it used to be.

I used to use good, old fashioned PGP 6.5.8, but since I've “upgraded” to Windows Vista, because my old machine died, I'm unable to use that older software anymore.

What I'm using now is also open source, so it won't have any backdoors or anything in it. So the below GnuPG v1.4.9 public key replaces the PGPfreeware 6.5.8 public key that I used to put up here. If I can find some way to get that older public key disabled I'll do so.

If, for some reason which I cannot fathom, you need to communicate with me in a secure manner my public PGP key is listed below. After it I have more on PGP.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
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=ce0P
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

That having been said, there are a lot of Web pages on PGP. I will only say here that I think it's one of the milestone's of the Internet that Phil Zimmerman bravely stood up to the goons of the Federal Government by both creating this wonderful piece of software, putting it out for free and then refusing to back down in the face of massive government acts of intimidation which lasted for years.

And since I'm updating things here I guess I'd better update the below links.

I'm leaving the legacy links in there, so if you click on a link and the page it brings you to says that it was last updated in 2002, well that just one of the older ones.

A bunch of things have changed in the past few years and folks with newer systems need newer links. But some folks are still able to keep their older machines running and so I'm leaving the legacy links in because they're still relevant to those folks.

If you're going to try to install one of the encryption/signing applications on your system be sure to read the Web pages about those applications thoroughly so you make sure you're getting something that's compatible with whatever sort of system you're running.

The PGP, GPG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) pages:

A good place to get started is the GnuPrivacyGuard (GPG) page.

If you really want to get into the details of OpenPGP click here.

The PGP Corporation has all sorts of software it sells, here's their FAQ.

Older links.

http://cryptography.org/getpgp.htm

http://cryptography.org/getpgp.txt

http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/

Where can you get PGP, GPG and related software?

GNU Privacy Guard can be downloaded here.

Enigmail works with the Thunderbird E-mail client.

Here's a page full of front ends that allow you to use GPG with various systems, including Windows, Macs, *ix, and E-mail clients like Eudora and Outlook.