OpenPGP

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Introduction

The email service in the Private Cyberspace Data Node comes with its own Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) based encryption software, allowing easy encryption of data like emails WITHOUT needing the exchange of a encryption keys between the sender and receiver.

PGP has a colourful history and was even considered by the US government as a munition once. Today it remains a highly effective security tool.

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Snappymail

Snappymail (the web browser email software that come in all Private Cyberspaces Data Nodes) supports three ways of using OpenPGP.

  • GnuPG
  • Mailvelope
  • OpenPGP.js

Unfortunately, as of 2025-08-01, activity with snappymail has slower.

Mailvelope

Although Mailvelope is open sourced and has been audited in the past:

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Key Servers

The 88.io incubator runs a openpgp key server pgp.88.io using:

There are other alternative OpenPGP Key Servers:

  1. https://hockeypuck.io/
    Used by https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/

  2. keys.openpgp.org / hagrid · GitLab
    Used by https://keys.openpgp.org/

  3. GitHub - SKS-Keyserver/sks-keyserver: OpenPGP keyserver
    Used by https://sks-keyservers.net/

  4. GitHub - ctubio/php-proxy-keyserver: PHP proxy and extensible web interface forwarding standard HKP requests to a local or remote SKS OpenPGP Keyserver.

Unlike traditional Key Servers you can verify you the Email Address and OpenPGP key you got using Geo Attest.

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Incubator

Key Generation

Everyone can generate their PGP keys at anytime to secure their emails, for example using one of our servers:

Generated PGP keys are best exchange directly between interested parties or published on the their team timeline.

Key Lookup

For those that wants to use a public key directory, there is the well known:

We are also developing our own old style centralised PGP key server at:

as an alternative key server to keys.openpgp.org

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iOS

There is NO open source openpgp email client on iOS, so we are waiting for thunderbird ios to be finished: