My name is Aaron Hsu, and I'm a computer scientist. I'm changing the way people look at computing and programming languages, what they can do with them, and how they do it.
I have repeatedly told my friends and family that securing their email is the second step in securing your electronic communications, the first being to start using a privacy-aware search engine. This usually falls on concerned but overwhelmed ears. It seems hard to encrypt email. In reality, it is easy,
If you aren't using PGP encrypted email, then you're a bad, bad person. :-) I've recently issued out new PGP keys to replace my expired ones. You can find them at the following link, as well as on public keyservers that tend to get traffic: http://files.sacrideo.us/arcfide-pgp.
There seems to be a bit of a problem with the way that Kmail and GnuPG interact that is somewhat confusing. If you do not have gpg-agent running by default, then Kmail will just tell you that it could not do anything when you try to sign or encrypt a