Best Practice for GPG Keys on Biz Cards

@roo Andrew F. L.
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:11:23 +0000

You want to recommend the full fingerprint, as this is what someone will use to verify ownership when they get around to looking up your key on this or that keyserver. You also want to make sure that if you are circulating a card with a fingerprint on it that the key can be found on all the main keyservers, or the point is kind of moot.

The purpose of the long fingerprint on the card is only so that when you personally hand your card to someone else, they will have de facto "careful checking" by the fact you gave it to them in person.

It's also kind of a nice conversation starter about pgp when someone asks "what is that?"