title: Should I protect the link to my public GnuPG-Key against email crawler?
body: <p>I guess my email address is somehow encoded in the exported public GnuPG-Key (Please tell me, if I'm wrong here).</p>
  
  <p>If I want to upload my public GnuPG-Key on my homepage, should I obfuscate the link to this GnuPG-Key? (for example with some code of JavaScript)</p>
  
  <p>Because normal obfuscation wants to make it expensive (in computation time) for a bot to extract the obfuscated information from a website, my main question is: How expensive (in computer time) would it be to extract the email from the public GnuPG-Key? Would an email crawler do this?</p>
  
  <p>PS: In this thread I don't want to discuss the question whether it is necessary to spend time in email address obfuscation or not. Please imagine for this post, that email address protection against crawler is important.</p>