Reminds me of people where I worked having vanity GPG key ids. I'm wondering how much CPU time and on what machines it took to find them.
rgovostes•4h ago
For vanity GPG keys, I came up with a neat trick where you could insert arbitrary ASCII art into your key. You construct your ASCII art using the Base64 character set. The decoded binary will be gibberish but you can place it in an inert Literal Data Packet that will be ignored by any conformant OpenPGP parser. It just takes a little finagling to align your data to a 3-byte boundary with appropriate line wrapping.
jkingsman•4h ago
I used a similar tool[0] for my SSH key to get a nice suffix to spot it easily.
Setup my first WG server last month. WG key gen obligingly put an f-bomb by the front of the key. "You're welcome" I said. True story.
jethro_tell•2h ago
Given a situation in which you have a decent way to guess user names, such as ‘first-initial-lastname’ how much entropy does this take away?
It seems like I’ve seen several of these over the years when a patch to parse comments would probably be simpler and less of an anti-pattern. What am I missing here?
Edit: or a config dir that allows multiple key files.
Calwestjobs•1h ago
I wanted this for Bitcoin address, and accidentally generated Satoshi/Peter private key.
sedatk•9m ago
I love that the app has ARM64 builds for Windows. I use a Windows ARM64 laptop daily, and every native ARM64 build I come across brings me joy.
burnt-resistor•5h ago
rgovostes•4h ago