Update 2016-08-11
The secret key for the public key that is posted at the bottom of this post has been lost. Any new encryptions should be made with the following key:
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PGP allows encrypted communications over the internet to a recipient using a pair of keys. One of the recipients keys is public and is often made freely available, the other is secret and is safely hidden by the recipient. The public key is used by a sender to encrypt a message. The message is transmitted over the internet, and only the recipient can decrypt it using their secret key. This is basically the same concept that is used to secure https communications that allow your computer to log into other websites securely over the internet. But that https setup is mostly done automatically, and if users master the pgp tools, they can use the protocol to send anything: secret messages, secret files, pie recipes, random nonsense designed to make it look like the decryption didn’t work, and any other data.
So if I provide an email address, and an ascii armored public pgp key, then any one will be able to encrypt and send messages to me that only I will be able to read (unless they encrypt the files symmetrically, in which case, the sender or anyone with the extra passphrase can decrypt the files). I offer no guarantees that I will read anything or everything, and I probably will not open anything that is not a text file.
So here’s an email address:
secret@jonathanhartpage.com
And here's the public key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQENBFZ5VQsBCAC+vbcseoPIIfQx7ESyrzyL6Np6NfeMKe4L2r3CvdewNS+MTWec XdhbmlYw83M1V2OqAPyDQWkws5wmLUhVXrYVtpNla5gMMMtj2Z2N+63uxzOOLqVe wrHmoEg48/oftI9V8KUrvwPQHvWeSPwYXuPBB80ernl983gMKRJvMkBhPkkxonBp dt5kbM7Evu+psu3F4uzbQXcIx3HLsWnlaUl+ydWG8t8Za7g9jE4BGlU9xjmVZLvR RseZQQOuYXPpnfcNlWW/gjdu811xrZH6Npoz4Tr/DfYxn2ht869yYmX4PUUCJBzC HGQ7Xz3fz9mdWCNdvlcte4y9RAoxjo+B6FMbABEBAAG0K0pvbmF0aGFuIEhhcnQg PHNlY3JldEBqb25hdGhhbmhhcnRwYWdlLmNvbT6JATcEEwEKACEFAlZ5VQsCGwMF CwkIBwMFFQoJCAsFFgIDAQACHgECF4AACgkQriPvZUABRbsxgwf/U9MgNimhWNWl lgL2oRUOunMXtb52aBGRgWmxKIydZuVs4vI0B+cO6YUit84+Uxu4X9RVg+dLIAi0 Br7IASXdPj+vcX69vyAVEb+efLxAiwayOICy+qWonk+2mQ1BRCtwNtlvh1CBXQIa ZQ85tqGKIjZdOk2fex7keeKjFSpGtKQu6g5CmSkAfFHM0ltI2UoHQvazk1InjYOk nRAQjoiiN7OrEtcHR9eC9VCigYxJslhR908YGDozE6Qgfj+co45zvc73SeyI8Scd avUPxngn0jqJexzGyAEnNsiU+2NhV3canUHjVfk7JMIsk0gIH8YH/KBC57k8t/9e zOunIZMEa7kBDQRWeVULAQgA4HuXD+174EkcEc+PYcb0iTv2fFsDUbfG8vLd8EkT CVmwVZUiFZdA3Js7ITD7Q+v8rqbSkrtT38BNi/hApoK06zc9YFI5Yo3VARuLcRVX HYpE+rKnCVAMEhKLGRYIJxBfzR1kCSzgKsnRrnmJDM9lrHe2t35PLRiJlj5swzKa cvYS5r38IC6p9gFu1BXNVYg33RaZb31PHRh1ZyD6BLJeZ3TjoC9xvn1ZyoQ1Dazv VsEDbJMTCO3skIUrA+ADfQ8fyoM+AH35fp5/WN2/1QK+AWn5E/WFR9MjsOWHXkT8 Z/MXE1X1jvzXvoOxK/CxPRFcP79JItZFLHUU/mxKnNhefQARAQABiQEfBBgBCgAJ BQJWeVULAhsMAAoJEK4j72VAAUW7q3YIAIDSoLW5/kY6jbtsSabQuM1zZrjB/kQm rI9jhjTHe5PTityAU25FYROIPh0ojjbrZc/HECt7s3pnJoe2aSsXxiw91VvhRDFg c4aDE1B3k5opyq5aw18dFcbPEavkykV2mQG7x/jSSkpmkw2m/UjA6MnIcA3Y2Eyl YnFtChZlLVeXNY+My9+sUksdQoU64LEkXtKw/T3YiE/BErq3UpPoSxWP3gL3EtTF fMqoJPWR7izNdAioYfHY0eq9mp8xgAIeN83qhK4Pa8OX/GY03yEXDxC/d6Pf47fG +yA5BSWDOCBhh6pP9UkF2bRHGJFnIfFHoEbl05/eM3l0/so+dUoAABQ= =T0wD -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
I might send you a message!