PGP Keys

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Privacy. Identity. Security.

If you don’t have or use PGP, get it now! It can be integrated with many existing email programs with little effort. See the links below for descriptions and software.

My keys, listed here, are available at the MIT public key server.

krz-2011 asc txt

51B1C82F This is my current key. Please use it for all new communication with me. Its fingerprint is 2B4E EF7F C047 32A2 AA1D 9D94 7655 8888 51B1 C82F.

krz-2003 asc txt

3BADA2BC This is the key that I used up through early 2011. I should have changed it sooner but didn’t, mostly due to inertia (laziness). Its fingerprint is 4B76 92E0 67C6 3C8F 0E2A 6822 ACD3 2DD0 3BAD A2BC.

krz-1994 asc txt

0A4C8D1D This is the key that I used for many years (too many, in fact). Every once in a blue moon, something comes back to haunt me that uses it, so I still keep it around. One day I’ll actually issue a revocation for it. You’ll need a PGP built with IDEA if you want to work with it (but please don’t use it for anything new). Its fingerprint is 22 D9 3F 36 E8 58 F7 33 30 41 28 D5 3D FE 71 1D.

Summary Vita

I leave a summary vita online; if you need or want details (either as a reference for someone who’s worked for me, or because you want to approach me about a consulting or contract gig), send me an email. This is, more or less, the standard “one pager” that gets attached to proposals and such.

For print quality, grab the PDF.

For browsing online, this version will suffice.

Blastwave

I used to be a package maintainer for Blastwave, and also ran the local mirror for my area. This was before the OpenCSW/Blastwave split. I went with the OpenCSW folks for a bit, but personality conflicts and other dysfunction drove me off. As I understand it, things are going really well for the OpenCSW folks these days, so whatever was behind all the nonsense must finally be behind them. Good for them! I wish them much success.

I considered returning, but… after many, many uears of being a Sun customer, I’ve left that OS for good. I started with SunOS 3.5 (affectionately known as the BSD days), got serious with 4.1, and stuck with it through all the Solaris years, up through Solaris 10. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a solid operating system, and who doesn’t love ZFS and DTrace, but

  1. I just got tired of dealing with the remnants of a once-great engineering department (the brain drain has been steady for years), but more damningly,

  2. Oracle is openly hostile to its users; this is also known as "insane."

These days I’m a very happy FreeBSD and OpenBSD user. I run the former as my day-to-day desktop (sparc64) and laptop (amd64), and run the latter for my networking equipment (sparc, i386). Can’t recommend them highly enough.

If you are still running Solaris 10, run, do not walk, and get the OpenCSW software stack. It will save you countless headaches from building things yourself, or using the Sun Freeware stack, or trying to rely on the /usr/sfw stack (shudder!).

The Inevitable Postscript

Punk is the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
— Greg Graffin

This is what I’ve learned in life so far:

  1. Question. Don’t be an ass about it, but ask those questions, find out why.

  2. Think. Do the answers make sense? Are there other answers?

  3. Reason. Which answers fit the facts, and which are bogus?

  4. Act. Do something big, or do something little, but do something.

Even the smallest act can positively affect someone else who might go on to do something big. Or, maybe, you simply make someone else’s life a little bit better in this world. But, whatever it is, make it your act. Go on, be the catalyst, be an agent of change.