TDNET 2.0: the New Homelab (Part 2)

Now, this is the second part of a two-part post, that one covered the tech and background, and this will be the tour. So, let’s begin, running this one front-to-back.

Delta Chat: Instant Messaging Using... Email?

So this is a fun one, and likely a long one. Come, let’s talk about the unlikely backing for a decentralized, privacy-focused communications platform, the very weird ways in which IMAP can be used, and a hopefully final wrap-up to my streak of rambling about PGP.

PGP Key Discovery Mechanisms Explained

Okay, final thing on PGP after talking about PGP itself and Signature and trust levels, we have… How you can get someone else’s public key.

There’s a few common ways to do this:

• Keyservers
• Web Key Directory
• DNS
  • CERT record
  • PKA TXT record
  • DANE OPENPGPKEY record

Let’s discuss how they all work.

PGP Trust Levels and Signature Types Explained

So last time we introduced the basics of how PGP works. This time, we cover something slightly more in-depth: signature types, and trust levels.

PGP (GPG) Explained

Pretty Good Privacy, or as it’s more commonly known as by its most popular client’s name, GNU Privacy Guard, is a method of encrypting and/or signing your messages using the power of public key cryptography. And, while it can get extremely complex, the basics of using PGP are, actually, pretty simple. So in the words of the great Angus Deveson, Let’s get started.