Spent the last week diving deep into E2EE and encryption. Decided to do it right: generated a fresh GPG key on my own hardware using Vanity GPG.
Managed to "mine" 10 trailing zeros for the fingerprint in just 5 minutes on the M4 Max—the performance is wild.
Chose ECC (Curve25519/Ed25519) for that perfect balance of speed and high security. Moved the private key to my YubiKey, and now signing GitHub/GitLab commits is just a single tap away.
My brain loves manual protocols, and there’s something deeply satisfying about hardware-backed trust. I know, I'm late to the party, but it feels good to finally have that "Verified" badge.
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