Sometimes I want to write something and put it on my blog/journal, but I am afraid that the content might offend someone. Sometimes it involves with privacy – either mine, Vivian’s or someone else’s that we know. Sometimes it is just something out of blue but I rather don’t want anyone else to know. I want to write it out so I can think about it later, but I don’t want others to know what I am writing…
What should I do? I can design it with some password authentication, but I don’t want to write extra hacks around MT. I can create another secret blog, but there is still possibility that someone might find out the secret.
At the end, I decided to encrypt the content with my PGP private key. I’ll still keep the entries here, but I’ll be the only person knowing how to read it, assuming GnuPG with 2048bit ElGamal is secure enough. Of course, searching won’t work, but that is okay I guess. I might keep them in one secret category, so I can have faster access over these encrypted entries…
And here’s my first encrypted entry, on my ear-dropping over a conversation last Saturday and my thoughts on some of the issues…
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I’ve been trying to come up with a way to create a password protected blog for personal content. I hadn’t thought of your approach. I think I’d still post encrypted content in a unlisted blog. That way, regular readers aren’t faced with a page of encrypted text. If someone comes across the unlisted blog, it won’t mean anything, unless they can break the encrption.
Thanks Ian for the advise.
It was not actually my idea, but I saw it on someone else’s blog site – the author encrypted the “personal” content if it might cause too much stir. Can’t remember where exactly I got the idea, but I found it cool. I might choose to decrypt some of the entries after the event has been cleared or whenever I found comfortable. I guess you can also do it with moving entries between the public and private blogs.
Is it troublesome when you read your blogs? How does GnuPG work?
I used to keep the blog as draft instead of ‘publish’-ing it if I want to keep it personal.