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I have been seeing people signing posts on forums and on sites like reddit with PGP keys, and in rare circumstances straight up encrypting their conversations with each other. It's interesting to see, and I think it would be cool to do in a nerdy kind of way.

What are your thoughts on this? Perhaps there is a reason to do this on certain sites that I'm not realizing, but to me I wouldn't think it would be needed on most sites.

I have been seeing people signing posts on forums and on sites like reddit with PGP keys, and in rare circumstances straight up encrypting their conversations with each other. It's interesting to see, and I think it would be cool to do in a nerdy kind of way. What are your thoughts on this? Perhaps there is a reason to do this on certain sites that I'm not realizing, but to me I wouldn't think it would be needed on most sites.

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[–] pembo210 2 points (+2|-0)

hey it's me, your friend from that place where you sold that one thing. You said you sent that thing you sold to me. I changed my mind. Please just refund my money to here -> scam..

^ This probably happens 100's of times per day.

I get that, and I suppose I would use a key to sign that type of message, but I see posts like this one I'm typing that have been signed.