My PGP Public Key

For Privacy/Coolness, Use PGP

If you want to make sure that no evildoers eavesdrop on email that you send to me, you can use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption.
Or, you can just encrypt your messages to be amazingly cool.

Basically, you can use my public key to encrypt messages so that only I can decrypt them (even you can't decode them). To get a more complete explanation of PGP, just click on this link to get the PGP documentation or jump directly to a quick overview. PGP uses the RSA algorithm; to get tons of information on RSA and public-key cryptography, click here. (Did you know that my CS advisor, Ron Rivest, is the "R" in "RSA?" Cool beans, huh?)

PGP encryption/decryption software is free and is available on the Web from PGP, Inc. and also at this MIT site, or from here if you are outside the US. To find out other people's public keys, you can try this public key server. If you use an Apple Macintosh, there is a page on Macintosh Cryptography available.

I have very few "signatures" on my public key. The reasons for this are:

I don't know many people who have public keys and could "sign" it.
I am not very worried about someone cooking up an elaborate scheme to publish a fake public key in my name. I just would rather not have anyone randomly sniffing the net intercept my private correspondence.

Here is my PGP Public Key:

stevenj@alum.mit.edu

For Privacy/Coolness, Use PGP

If you want to make sure that no evildoers eavesdrop on email that you send to me, you can use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption. Or, you can just encrypt your messages to be amazingly cool.

Here is my PGP Public Key:

If you want to make sure that no evildoers eavesdrop on email that you send to me, you can use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption.
Or, you can just encrypt your messages to be amazingly cool.