{"id":130,"date":"2015-09-10T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:30:42","slug":"ubiquitous-encryption-with-gpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquitous Encryption with GPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because its easy, and because it provides so many benefits, i now try to use encryption everywhere. GPG is my tool of choice; i actually don&#8217;t even know what other options there are. Here are some things I have found to be useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Password management. \u00a0I use the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.passwordstore.org\">pass<\/a>\u00a0application for this. \u00a0After installing gpg, i just do a &#8220;pass init &lt;keyid&gt;&#8221; and from there i am good to go. \u00a0I use qtpass as a graphical frontend. \u00a0The way this works is as follows: you add a password &#8220;pass insert blah&#8221;, which then asks you for the password to store. \u00a0Later you can ask for the password by typing &#8220;pass blah&#8221;. Storing passwords sure is a good idea, but even better is to just have pass generate good ones for you. \u00a0To do this i type &#8220;pass generate foobar 12&#8221; and a 12-char password is generated and stored. \u00a0Now i can have unique passwords for all my websites, and pass will remember them. \u00a0The one thing that weired me out is that after unlocking any password i could get at any others without entering my passphrase. \u00a0This worried me\u00a0a bit because it looked like\u00a0you only had to unlock things once and then they remained unlocked. \u00a0Turns out it was because gpg-agent is running and caching passwords for up to 10 min (default). \u00a0I figure its ok to leave things open for 10 min, in fact it would essentially mean if youre checking a lot of websites and you dont remember their passwords, you dont have to keep typing your passphrase over and over.<\/li>\n<li>GPG also has great integration into mac os x. \u00a0I use this for mail and file encryption. \u00a0For mail, it lets me sign all my emails, regardless of where they go. \u00a0If the recipients are also using encryption, i can encrypt the messages. \u00a0When i receive an encrypted email i can decrypt it, etc. \u00a0Its literally 1-button email encryption for free. \u00a0Not bad!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for my philosophy: &#8220;why encrypt?&#8221; I think the burden is more on people to answer: &#8220;why not encrypt?&#8221; \u00a0It takes almost no effort, and the benefit is that\u00a0emails sent directly to you are no longer viewable by anyone else along their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because its easy, and because it provides so many benefits, i now try to use encryption everywhere. GPG is my tool of choice; i actually don&#8217;t even know what other options there are. Here are some things I have found to be useful: Password management. \u00a0I use the\u00a0pass\u00a0application for this. \u00a0After installing gpg, i just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubiquitous Encryption with GPG<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}