Nicolas Greenwood

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I am always open to thoughtful conversations, collaborations, project proposals, or questions about my work.

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Freelancing and Developer Services

If you’re looking for a way to contact me regarding a freelance project, please send me an email at nicolas.greenwood@outlook.com. I will endeavor to get back to you within 48 hours.

To learn more about the developer services I provide, please visit my Programming page. I am usually open to new projects.

Send Me an Encrypted Email (beta)

  1. Install/configure OpenPGP:

    You can work with emails encrypted with OpenPGP via an PGP-compatible email client or service or by encrypting/decrypting emails manually via the CLI. If your email client supports PGP encryption, follow their instructions.

    If you’d like to use the CLI method, see gpg4win.org for Windows or install with Homebrew if you’re on MacOS. If you’re using Linux, GnuPG is available through most Linux distributions’ package managers.

    The rest of this guide assumes you are using the CLI method of email encryption.

  2. Download my public key

    Download it here: nicolas-key.asc

    or copy it raw and paste into an .asc file:

    -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

mDMEapWHaBYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAnNhCmN9FoIVSiSTDaIuv0GluWmluqAF4p1L1
xjyeM9m0QU5pY29sYXMgR3JlZW53b29kIChQb2V0IGFuZCBkZXYuKSA8bmljb2xh
cy5ncmVlbndvb2RAb3V0bG9vay5jb20+iK8EExYKAFcWIQRnADYIvEeEnUF0jmK6
rniljX/piwUCapWHaBsUgAAAAAAEAA5tYW51MiwyLjUrMS4xMiwwLDMCGwMFCwkI
BwICIgIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgcCF4AACgkQuq54pY1/6Yup1gEAgIJhKJTciA8h
r0H9sckandNWE0DgKA7/7DRUqONrxr8BANVAwQvEPfziOu9wWrauoOECJmPFYnms
sM2wFO+V3/oOuDgEapWHaBIKKwYBBAGXVQEFAQEHQL1uw9auIV3x1FAi207/2ylD
FTjIYLr9FzQY+6y5jKwtAwEIB4iTBBgWCgA8FiEEZwA2CLxHhJ1BdI5iuq54pY1/
6YsFAmqVh2gbFIAAAAAABAAObWFudTIsMi41KzEuMTIsMCwzAhsMAAoJELqueKWN
f+mLe6EA/RUwa2FPqF2c5mq6Hv8XtmKWpXdPOiaseagbT6aZSA5XAPUQP8I8+3v1
LMvHXcr7BqEMTA92ra+ujnU+Rr0UDysL
=eMXg
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

  3. Import my public key

    Run this command to import my key:

    gpg --import nicolas-key.asc

  4. Verify my public key

    To verify you have the correct key, run this command to extract the fingerprint and compare with the one shown here. If they match, you have the correct key.

    gpg --fingerprint nicolas.greenwood@outlook.com

    My OpenPGP Fingerprint:

    6700 3608 BC47 849D 4174  8E62 BAAE 78A5 8D7F E98B

  5. Prepare and send your email

    Write your message and save it in a .txt file. Then run this command to encrypt your message:

    gpg --armor --encrypt --recipient nicolas.greenwood@outlook.com message.txt

    This will create a file looking something like message.txt.asc. Copy the text from that file and send it to nicolas.greenwood@outlook.com as a normal email. Note: this only encrypts your message content. It does not encrypt your normal message metadata and subject line.

That’s all! You have just successfully sent an encrypted email. Only the holder of my private key can decrypt it by running a simple command. Useless, but cool, right?

If your email service provider supports PGP encryption natively, encrypting/decrypting emails is a lot easier, but using the CLI is a lot more fun.