Specific key for this hat, i wanted to share this idea. But i also wanted to see if any local people would email me. Also didnt want to paste my email adress online LMAO.

Also cause nerd fonts IM ADDICTED

That's the kind of things I expect somebody to be into deciphering to have already a ~/Prototypes/deciphers/ directory with a bunch of scripts with the basics and maybe a testing script that iterates through them sorted by probability (maybe based on popularity) and checks output against keywords, e.g. stop words of increasing length then dictionaries.

TL;DR: I bet that person had automated that process.

we did that back we i used usenet

Thats a fucking metal idea.

They meant that they wanted to do a test to see if they would get any gpg-encrypted emails from people who saw the hat in real life; the "experiment" doesn't work if you allow internet strangers to email you too, as then you don't know where a person may have gotten the email address/key from

If they have it on a hat, in real life, then it's linked to their real identity. They might just want to keep it separate from Lemmy.

Yeah i thought about that! I have been playing with base64 encoding tho!

There’s a GitHub project for that: https://gist.github.com/joostrijneveld/59ab61faa21910c8434c

Yeah qr codes would be the "easier way" But i never scan any of them because MALWARE

I think the whole key is more of a conversation starter than just QR code. We all know what they are and dont ask people questions aboit them.

Nah photos, would be better and or theres an app that can import gpg keys from photos. I dont quite remember what it is tho

It should be if there is chunks missing its unusable. At least thats my thinking, since gpg is usually a binary and ascii armor makes it human readable. As long as a person cannot guess the blacked out parts, there shouldnt be any data.

Kinda like binary if your missing bits of binary in a program it should be unreadable

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im full of shit Its base64 and you can somewhat decode it

• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP): The first implementation of a set of methods used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, emails and files that ultimately became a standard called "OpenPGP" (RFC 4880), the program itself was commercial/proprietary. Sometimes "PGP" is also used to call the standard itself for short.

• GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): A popular Free and Open Source program from the GNU project that uses/implements the OpenPGP standards

Pgp?