governorkeaganSep 9, 2024

Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?

https://lemdro.id/post/12833149

Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?

More specifically, if I was to attach my public key to every email — even when the recipient doesn’t use PGP. My assumption is that “life would carry on” and there would be basically no difference but I’m not entirely sure. _the process of using PGP for encrypting content (text messages for example) is something I’m only just started understanding after some reading and practicing_

Show threadfelbane

Signing every message should have zero effect for people who don’t use PGP; they’ll just have a cryptic block of text at the bottom of the message you sent.

It’s overkill to ship your pubkey with every email. Most people just publish to a trusted keyserver and call it a day since pretty much every client worth its salt can look up your pubkey directly.

Sep 9, 2024 at 12:47amWeb
Show threaddegenSep 9, 2024
Please tell me clients handle everything automatically/on the fly…I recently read a comment making a “joke” about the hassle of needing to manually decrypt/encrypt and the tradeoffs of security…and I can’t tell if it was real
Show threadlurch (he/him)Sep 9, 2024
the big, popular clients do