THE HUNTER’S LEDGER
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PGP Public Key
For sending sensitive material to The Hunter's Ledger, including victim-identifying detail, credentials, and pre-publication findings.

Fingerprint

228F D729 F9C5 45CE F381  64A8 9FA0 CE30 5AF9 1383

Key ID 9FA0CE305AF91383, RSA 4096, created 26 July 2026, valid to 26 July 2027. Identity: Joseph Harrison <the.hunters.ledger@gmail.com>.

Verify the fingerprint before you use the key. Compare what you see here against a second, independent source rather than trusting this page alone. Checking a key against the same channel it arrived on proves nothing, and out-of-band verification is what defeats a substituted key.

When to use it

Use it for anything you would not put in plaintext email. Compromised-account identifiers, credentials, victim-identifying detail, malware samples, and any pre-publication finding you want handled in confidence all qualify.

National CERTs, incident response teams, and affected organizations are welcome to open an encrypted channel at any time, whether or not an exchange is already under way. If your team publishes its own key, send it, and anything going back the other way will be encrypted to it.

Reports, detection rules, and indicator feeds published here are open by design and need no encryption. This key exists for the material that sits behind them.

Download

hunters-ledger-pubkey.asc

The same key is referenced as the Encryption field of /.well-known/security.txt, per RFC 9116.

Import it:

gpg --import hunters-ledger-pubkey.asc

Or fetch and import in one step:

curl -s https://the-hunters-ledger.com/assets/pgp/hunters-ledger-pubkey.asc | gpg --import

Public key block

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