PGP and private contact

The short version

• You can write to us so only site admins can read it. Encrypt your message with our public key below, then email it or paste it to us on IRC.
• You can check that a message really came from us. Anything important we post, like a dose correction or a warning, can be signed with this key.
• You don't need an account or a name for any of this. The encrypt box on this page runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.

Our key

Fingerprint:

6A74 77DC 756F 6EA9 F0C7 17AD 5EAF C51C E59C 94FE

Download the public key (.asc). The same fingerprint is in our Libera.Chat channel topic and on our profiles, so you can check it against more than one place. If they ever disagree, don't trust the key and tell us.

With GnuPG: gpg --import intoxicant-wiki.asc, then gpg --fingerprint and compare. Mail apps that look keys up by address (Thunderbird, Proton, GnuPG's --locate-keys) find it on their own.

Encrypt a message here

Type your message, press Encrypt, then copy the result into an email to [email protected] or paste it to an op in our chat. It's encrypted on your device before you copy it. Leave out anything that identifies you unless you want a reply.

Checking a signed message from us

Save the signed text as a file and run gpg --verify file.txt. It should say "Good signature" and show the fingerprint above. If it says anything else, treat the message as fake.

What this doesn't hide

Encryption hides what you wrote, not that you wrote. Your email provider still sees who you emailed and when, and on IRC other people in the channel see your nickname. For more privacy, use a throwaway email address or connect to IRC through Tor. In an emergency, don't wait on us: call your local emergency number.