Yay email encryption! :)

For security reasons, I decided to start attempting to encrypt more of my email correspondence, despite the fact that it is quite a pain to do so. Please send your emails to me encrypted with my public key and send me your public key so I can encrypt emails sent to you! :)

For those of you who do not know how to encrypt your emails, it is a pretty simple process. I am using FireGPG, an application of GnuPG.

(1) Install FireGPG
(2) Set up a public key and a private key for your email account. The public key is the key that you give to anybody and everybody so they can send encrypted messages to you. It is okay to give that key to your enemies, too, because they will not be able to read anything with that key, just send you encrypted stuff that you can decrpyt with your private key. The private key is the key that you should keep to yourself. You will use that key to decrypt any encrypted messages sent to you and to add a PGP signature at the end of your email if you want to prevent someone from being able to impersonate you.
(3) Encrypt your emails to people using THEIR public key. Make everyone send emails to you using YOUR public key. :)

Feel free to ask me if you have any questions (on how to encrypt your emails, not on cryptography)!