PGP Public Key

Update for May 2025

I updated my Yubikey to the 5C NFC and dug out all my old offline keys to load them into the new Yubikey. The process took some remembering, and in that time gpg --card-edit got tons better.

I still don’t have a really great use case for the signing and encryption – outside of the occasional git commits at work.

I like the NFC and USB-C, and ability for Passkey support. Still undecided if I’ll do a lot of PGP signing.

Update for Nov 2018

I’ve entirely given up on PGP since this post in 2015. I still have and still love the YubiKey for 2FA (Second Factor Authentication, or Two Factor Auth), but I have never once ran into any situation where having my own PGP encrypted email or signed file was a benefit for me or anyone else I communicate with.

Signal, and even WhatsApp, have become encrypted communication paths of choice as far as I can tell.

I do still keep GPG around on my Linux system because sometimes you want to validate a downloaded packages signature, but usually just to make sure all the right bits got there.

Original Page From 2015

If you want to send me a secure email find my burns at bbbburns com public key here.

Fingerprint: 44D9 CD4E B5DE 7C25 67B6 969C 4B33 CDC4 9039 40DE

Keybase Signing Statement

I experimented with GPG / PGP keys a while back but never got into the habit of using them regularly. Remembering the pass phrase was just too cumbersome for signing, and I only had one other friend I could badger into using Thunderbird and Enigmail.

I purchased a Yubikey and moved to Linux and the Mac (completely Windows free) so I’m giving it another go. It’s really easy on the Mac. Surprisingly so.

I followed this guide here for the Yubikey. It’s certainly complicated to setup. I recommend you follow this one. Check out keybase.io as well, they really simplify this process. I have invites to give out if you’re interested.