Email Self-Defense

Information for contacting Protesilaos Stavrou.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, or if you are interested in any of the subjects I’ve written about on this site and would like to talk about them, please feel free to contact me using the means listed below. Alternatively, if you shout loudly enough, I may hear you! E-Mail hayden at haywalk dot ca Encryption Download my PGP public key Fingerprint: 7038 1712 982B 971B 0269 77C4 AC29 40BF 5387 68D1 How and why should I encrypt e-mail? LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/haywalk

Email is a decentralized, non-web messaging transport, with user interfaces that enable a wide range of message formats and styles, and commonly used for account recovery by web sites and applications.

Why and How to use encryption

Introduction Put on your tinfoil hats, boys and girls! Today, we’re talking about security, encryption, and GPG! PGP vs OpenPGP vs GPG PGP Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) was a program created to encrypt/decrypt data in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann. Zimmermann formed PGP Incorporated, which was acquired serveral times and is now owned by Symantec. Fun fact - in 1993 the US government charged Zimmerman with “munitions export without a license”. At the time, cryptography systems with keys over 40 bits were considered a weapon, and since PGP used 128 bit keys, Zimmerman was in violation of the law. However, Zimmerman was able to circumvent this by publishing the entire source code of PGP in a physical book (that could be scanned with OCR and recompiled into source code), since the export of books was protected by the First Amendment. Today, PGP is no longer considered a weapon, but still cannot be exported to a specific list of individuals/countries.

Writing about Python, machine learning, teaching, and international affairs.

Writing about Python, machine learning, teaching, and international affairs.

More internet highlights I selected.

More internet highlights I selected.

When I was a kid, everyone with an online presence curated links to things they found interesting. This page is my attempt to emulate that. Orthodoxy Akathists - A repository of Akathist hymns. Ponomar Project - Orthodox liturgics and a complete html menaion. St. Dumitru’s Monastery - Gorgeous Romanian monastery in Middletown, NY. St. Peter’s Monastery - In-development monastic community in Harrison, MT. St. Tikhon’s Monastery - OCA monastery and seminary in South Canaan, PA. Telos Center - Orthodox Christian young adult group in Boston, MA. Computing Artix Linux - Arch Linux with better repos and init scripts. Email Self-Defense - A DIY email freedom guide. GrapheneOS - Privacy and security oriented mobile OS. Heaven Tree - A webring of artisinal Christian webpages. httpd.rocks - A guide on how to configure a webserver on OpenBSD. LARBS - Automatic post-install scripts for Arch Linux. Libreboot - Privacy-respecting bios/uefi firmware. OpenBSD - Free and secure UNIX-like operating system. Qobuz - DRM-free music store. Recipes Based Cooking - Tracker, advertisement, and cookie-less recipe website. Dotnom - Simple recipe pages with citations. FOSS Cooking - Another fork. GrimGrains - Local-produce and fasting compatible recipes. Public Domain Recipes - A fork of the above. Sailing Rabbit Waves - Hand-drawn rabbit-themed maritime infographics. Math and Science HyperPhysics - Cool physics and chemistry resource I used a ton in high school.

Mozilla Thunderbird is the preinstalled email client application on Ubuntu. Using this application, an Ubuntu user can read emails coming i...

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Encrypting email with Thunderbird and Sequoia PGP.