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Re:Show HN: Vanity GPG Keys (and help fund GnuPG!) by Sarien on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:14AM (#8873293)
"there are legitimate uses for such keys" - not for crypto
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Re:Show HN: Vanity GPG Keys (and help fund GnuPG!) by yuvadam on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:29AM (#8873335)
How about education and raising awareness?
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Re:Show HN: Vanity GPG Keys (and help fund GnuPG!) by xrstf on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:47AM (#8873396)
How do you raise awareness and educate people by selling them conceptionally broken keys? They will get used to "someone else is creating the key for me", as well as to "GPG fingerprints should look like funny words, not 17AB42DE!".

For testing and explaining GPG to people, nobody needs vanity keys. You don't raise awareness for GPG by having "DEADBEEF" on your business card.

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Re:Show HN: Vanity GPG Keys (and help fund GnuPG!) by aw3c2 on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:39AM (#8873370)
awareness of bad crypto practise? :\
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