I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!) And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!

Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.

The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!

I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.

I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.

Hope you enjoy My little project >:) hehe

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      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

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Put an nfc tag there, you can insert it behind the leather. Write the same key on it and that way you could tip your hat onto someonea phone for a quick transfer for later communications.

    With the way you stitched it, you could easily push one of the flat flexible ones there without having to mess with the stitches

  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Back in the day, when forums were still a thing, I dumped a bunch of binary into my signature and waited for someone to figure out what it says. Eventually, someone did go through the trouble of converting it to hex, ASCII, HTML, ROT13, BASE64 or whatever random conversions I had access to at the time. Anyway, one day I got a message about it, and I was so delighted.

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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      8 days ago

      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.