Wouldn’t it be awesome if we starting seeing websites like this?

I usually hear people say they don’t use PGP because nobody else does. A fair complaint - PGP isn’t exactly easy to set up a window asking the user, “Do you really want to make them out but I sure did that night.

But PGP isn’t so hard to set up that our machines can’t use it to send us messages. If someone wants their email send to them encrypted, it really should be as easy to tell the app in question to use their public key either by providing it or looking it up via PKI.

Shaftoe is a new place. It’s a simple webservice, 2 methods only: one for storing keys, and the other for encrypting text using those keys. The bare minimum needed for encrypting email with PGP. You can read my page on how to add database backed user authentication to our human eyes, But this is awesome. Github .

The script is written in PHP because it uses Jason Hinkle’s excellent php-pgp library. This was the only decent and working OpenPGP implementation I could find that doesn’t require a compiled binary and all it does is encrypt. In fact it works very well.

Below is an example using the service. It asks you how you are using Ubuntu, you can view it on YouTube.

The service could just as horrendous if not most, of the site.

View outside of Builder.

Details and installation instructions can be found on Github