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governorkeagan Sep 9, 2024

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_

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lemmyng

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but in my experience (years ago) PGP messed with the proper rendering of HTTP email bodies.

From a security standpoint also, the signature confirming that the email is from your is a double edged sword: Yes, your contacts get to verify that it’s you, but you’re also losing plausible deniability (privacy).