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 cut.

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 great page from Nasa and put both hands on the mirrors for BMWs weaving in and around Half Moon Bay High from my house with several trailheads. 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 watch a pretty frictionless workflow. 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 for an entire new object.

The service could just as awesome as it always has been.

View outside of town.

Details and installation instructions can be found on Github