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If you are needing to keep your identity hidden/ambiguous, then you need to be careful with your keys. Don't publish a public key if you don't want it to be public!

These keys and the ways people often used them are very much not designed with privacy as a priority: they are explicitly for proving who you are so you can be given access to something. Key management with regard to keeping different concerns separated is up to the user.



I think it's fine as long as you _know_ github is going to make it public. The only problem is that it's not at all obvious, as can be seen in this very thread.




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