Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmOn a related but separate issue I would also like to see consumers being given visual recognition for using PGP security. e.g. some manner of visual signifier like a badge/tag, similar to how ebay uses colored stars for its users, so everybody knows user X is part of the 'PGP Club' (suggest a little golden lock icon like SSL).That could certainly be a cute little identifier.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pm2. The next idea is more of a community affair, PGP Club! Woot!Basically, we have long standing members of the forum volunteer a little of their time to helping those shy doe eyed newbs (so cute!) graduate to being members of the PGP Club (instantaneously transmorphed into those austere greybeards, the cyptroanarchist cyberelite intelligentsia! Yes!).Well I'm not actually a long standing member, I just no a fair bit about GPG.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmSo, it is befitting that PGP is seen as 'cool', 'wicked' by SR customers. It makes it easier to 'plug' them into the market on the fly as it were. I'm trying to say this is broader than SR, that we're cultivating an anonymous e-market of PGP-aware people generally but that it starts in earnest here if it is to start anywhere proper. Remember, anonymity loves company, the larger the set...Yep. I try to encourage people here to make at least two key pairs. One for their SR identity and one for "real life" and general use. The more that even ordinary email is encrypted, the better.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmIn practice this means some of our geek comrades have to leap from their laurels and repeatedly answer the same questions again, and again, and again in the PGP threads I hope to see. I kind of suspected this would be the case when I first signed up for this forum. I did not, however, expect the BTC donation just for answering one (fairly obscure) technical question.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmThe message that you're not one of the cool kids unless you join PGP Club has got to get out there.I'm one of the cool kids now? Gosh.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmPeople who don't use PGP need to be bullied (in a friendly big bro/sis way) to join the Hive and new customers who use PGP or want to use it need to be given encouragement, a virtual slap on the back in an altogether more consistent fashion.I'd push that a little further. All those people using keys smaller than 2048-bit in strength also need to be pilloried. I've seen several vendor keys that consisted of a 1024-bit Master/signing key with a 512-bit encryption subkey.One or two BTC mining rigs repurposed to cracking these 512-bit keys would rip them apart in a very short space of time. Any law enforcement or spook organisation would drool over the thought of vendors using such weak encryption.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmForthwith, pine will be setting up a "PGP Club" in the General Board (to prevent potential escapees overlooking the Security subforum). Here I'll help anybody who wants to learn PGP basics. I also encourage cryptographically inclined SRers join me in that or similar threads.That's why I commented on the other thread, so I can see the updates in the "show new replies" page.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmThe principal should be, that if you learn PGP, you pass it on to the next fellow. It's like the rifle quota at Stalingrad, but much more important.It should be passed on to *at least* one other person, but if it is passed on to more, both within SR and not, then we all gain even more.Quote from: pine on July 15, 2012, 09:16 pmIn particular, if you are a vendor, then throw your deluded plaintext users our way to the PGP Club so they can be cool again :)If you are a vendor you should also double-check that you're doing everything properly.