From a place slightly to the side of the more popular path https://articles.59.ca/ Sun, 24 May 2026 12:42:32 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://articles.59.ca/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png https://articles.59.ca/ https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:koobk Keys.openpgp.org Breaks Your Keys This article will be presented in the form of a rant... Keys.openpgp.org is a PGP keyserver on the internet. It's somewhat popular and is the default keyserver for more than one PGP implementation. That's all the context I am going to provide at this point. Let's generate a key and upload it. This is how GnuPG described it after generation: b.walzer@undisclosed.example.com (b.walzer) Tue, 05 May 2026 21:12:11 +0000 https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:gdpr When the GDPR Seems to Prevent an Entire Technology "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the current EU (European Union) privacy regulation. It has spawned an intellectual exercise where some provision of the GDPR is used to prove that the GDPR makes some system effectively illegal. Some examples: b.walzer@undisclosed.example.com (b.walzer) Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:31:06 +0000