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Somebody needs to do a best practices for pseudoanon OpenPGP like being careful not to upload your key to a keyserver in the clear, unmasking yourself. Not using any identifying info while generating. As an example look at political or blackhat forums sometime and just examine the public keys posted: hotmail addresses and traceable user nyms. Also avoiding anybody who sends you a BCPG bouncy castle key or OpenPGP.js in the version header, because they are probably using some ridiculously insecure browser encryption addon.


Riseup's "Digital Security for Activists" goes into a bit more detail:

https://zine.riseup.net/


Using pgp anonymously is really hard, esp because PGP has no integrated way to do authentication without non-repudiation.




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