Send Me a Secure Message

🔑 What Is PGP Encryption?

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a battle-tested encryption standard used by journalists, security researchers, lawyers, and anyone who needs to communicate privately. It works using a key pair:

• Public key — I share this openly. Anyone can use it to scramble (encrypt) a message for me.
• Private key — I keep this secret. Only I can unscramble (decrypt) messages encrypted with my public key.

The result: a message encrypted to my public key is mathematically unreadable to anyone but me — not your email provider, not a network eavesdropper, not anyone.

🤔 When Would You Use This?

• Sharing sensitive business information or a security disclosure
• Reaching out about a vulnerability or incident without risk of exposure
• Any situation where you'd rather the contents stay between the two of us

For everyday conversation, a regular email is fine. This is here when you need it.

📬 How to Send an Encrypted Message

The easiest path is a free tool called Keybase or a local app like GPG / GnuPG. The general steps are the same either way:

1. Download my public key using the button above and import it into your PGP tool of choice.
2. Compose your message as plain text in any text editor.
3. Encrypt it to [email protected] using my public key. Your tool will produce an armored text block starting with -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----.
4. Paste the encrypted block into an email or send it any way you like — it's safe to send over any channel because only my private key can open it.

Prefer a quick browser-based option? PGPainless and OpenPGP.js let you encrypt directly in your browser without installing anything.

✅ Verifying the Key Is Really Mine

Before encrypting anything sensitive, confirm the key fingerprint matches. You can check this in your PGP software after importing the key — it should read:

If the fingerprint doesn't match, don't use the key — contact me through another channel to verify.

Have questions about this? Email me the old-fashioned way at [email protected] and I'm happy to walk you through it.