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.
We use a similar method for our passwords here. Your password goes through the process and gets saved as a long string of numbers and letters that's nothing near the actual password. When you try to login, it sends the entered password through the system to see if the output matches the stored one when you created the account. So if the database gets hacked, and everything gets leaked, your personal password looks something like "$ald34jio5hkj4n5rt4jlkn45jnkj45n34jk5n" to the hacker.