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--- pgpfan:pgpfan [2020/05/20 20:43] – created b.walzer
+++ pgpfan:pgpfan [2021/03/10 00:28] – Credit where credit is due. b.walzer
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   - In terms of technical complexity, it is one of the simplest systems you can actually use for practical work with public key cryptography.
-This is directly at odds with the sort of things you read about PGP in the technical press. It occurred to me that if PGP can have anti-fans it can also have fans. These PGP advocacy articles are the result.
+This is directly at odds with the sort of things you read about PGP in the technical press. It occurred to me that if PGP can have anti-fans it can also have fans. These PGP advocacy articles are the result. I must sincerely extend thanks to the author of those articles for the motivation. They are good rants.
+The terminology that applies to encrypted messaging is not that well standardized. In this series of articles, when I use the word "identity" I mean the thing that uniquely identifies a particular entity using a particular system. For example, a PGP identity is the public key used for verifying a PGP signature.
+[[pgpfan:index|PGP FAN index]]