08/10/2002 Entry: "Everyone must blog."

"Bitches, come!" Maybe the least forgettable line in XXX, it's amazing the actors were able to remember their lines at all. Lots of explosions but not much else. A solar-powered, jet-propelled boat?

I'm going to try this "blog" thing out for a while. If this turns out to be the place I go to complain about everything, I apologize in advance. Nothing much else in the way of potential content comes to mind at the moment.

So on to the complaining. Recently I've been obsessed with encryption and have started using GnuPG to sign all my email. A PGP signature tells anyone who cares to verify it that the message was written by the sender and has not been modified. I've noticed on the mailing lists I read that a fair number of other people also sign their messages. In order to be able to verify the signature you must have the person's public key. There are keyservers where you can publish your public key to make it easier for people to find it. Well, a depressing number of people are signing email they send out, but haven't published their key on a keyserver, and do not provide any url or hint of where their key can be found.

Without their key, I cannot verify the signature on their message. Don't they know this? I decided to email one person I found and find out. No reply yet.