Contact Me
If you’d like to contact me, please don’t hesitate to do so. In case you want to write a personal email, you can obtain my current email address by searching on a public PGP server for the term Patrick Fey (see the PGP section further down this page).
Legal Information
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Patrick Fey
Sohrhof 27
22607 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49-40-411629-09
Facsimile: +49-40-411629-10
Email: blog @ nachtarbeiter.net
PGP Key
Introduction
Not only recently I’ve experienced people’s surprise about a fact that seems obvious even to most web developers: An email address can be forged. To be more exact, it can be forged by the simplest means. I would say that almost all people working on the web for a profession – including the less experienced – can forge an email address.
Of course, the fact that email addresses can be forged so easily may turn out to be a problem in normal day to day email communication. You can never be one hundred percent sure that an email originates from the person you expect.
To overcome these implications of email communication some clever folks developed a service called PGP, which is short for Pretty Good Privacy (It’s all in the name!). A sender of an email would sign her mail with a so called PGP key and utilizing special software the recipient would be able to verify the email’s origin.
In case you want to communicate with me via PGP signed messages, simply sign or encrypt your message with your key. My PGP public key can be found below or on a public key server. My key was signed by the c’t certificate authority a while back, so that you can be sure that I’m the person I claim to be.
Public Key Server Import
In case you’d rather want to import my key from a public key server, search for Patrick Fey and you will surely find it.
My PGP Key: 0x0339AE81
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Further Information
You can find further information on PGP in the English Wikipedia.