I thought y'all would be tickled by the "e-card" I made up in preparation for the MacWorld Expo. I made a bunch of cards from Avery 5371 Laser Business Cards (about twelve bucks for 250 cards, at most office supply stores). On the front is a nifty logo, my name, and my e-mail address. No phone or snail address. (I have a regular card for that, or I can write my number on the e-card if I want the recipient to have it). On the back is a headline "PGP Public Key Encryption Key", followed by these instructions: "Enter the key block exactly as shown. Check carefully to ensure that it is correct. Then remove the spaces between the 8 character groups and add to your public keyring." (Suggestions for wording? I don't have much space...) Following is my ASCII-armored public key, in courier font so it is fixed-width and everything lines up nicely. I added a space after every eighth character. Maybe I should use a narrower space and put it after every fourth. To save space (and user typing) I copied my key into a new keyring and removed all the signatures from it before extracting it as ASCII. It is also in a just-readable 5-point size. Finally, it says "For a fully-signed key, finger crawford@maxwell.ucsc.edu". One might ask, "if they can finger, why give the key?" The recipient might not be on the Internet. I don't think you can finger from AOL, and I'm sure you can't from UUCP, AppleLink or CompuServe. In any case, it will be more convenient for the people I meet at the show to enter my key on their laptops back at the hotel, without having to cruise the net looking for my key. I dig it. It needs some sprucing up on the graphic design, but it seems like it will be useful. Regards, Michael D. Crawford crawford@scruznet.com <- Please note change of address. crawford@maxwell.ucsc.edu <- Finger me here for PGP Public Key.