Public Keys and My Digital Signatures

This page contines information about the digital signatues that I use to sign my emails and my public key if you wish to encrypt information to send to me.

Digital Signature

I have created my digital signature using the open source project CaCERT. As such you may get a notification from your email client that it does not recognise the signature signing authority because, as yet, the root certificate from CaCert has not been incorporated into most email clients. For details about my CaCERT profile (for the paranoid) I have 150 certified points which means that my identification has been independantly verified by at least two people. I am also listed as a trusted assurer for others.

There are several things that you can do about this error:

  1. Ignore the error
  2. Import the CaCERT root certificate into BOTH your email client and web browser, the CaCERT logo below contains a link to the projects website which contains instructions on importing the root certificate

www.cacert.org

Public Key

I have created a PGP public key if you wish to encrypt data that you send to me. The key has been created using GnuPG and signed by myself using my CaCERT identity. Full details of the GNUPG project are availabl on the projects home page, see link in the logo below.

My public key is available via the public key servers network:

  1. choose a server:
    http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/
  2. Search for my key, eg Peter Brady, the email listed is my personal email (pdbrady_at_ans_dot_com_dot_au)
  3. Download and import it into your keychain

I use Thunderbird with the enigmail extension for my email client and GUNPG extension and these work well, check them out..

GNUPG Logo