[wellylug] key signing in Wellington

[Valient Gough]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 04:35, Ewen McNeill wrote:


> Are you deliberately scheduling this against Thursday Night Curry (which
> at least some people who might otherwise attend would want to go to), or
> is it accidental?  


I have no idea what Thursday Night Curry is, or when (Thursday night I
suppose), or where..  How much earlier would you suggest?  I'm a curry
fan too, so I might like to go to both as well!


> Also do you mean Thursday as in tomorrow, or Thursday as in next week?


Yep, I mentioned in the thread that I will only be in Wellington until
Sunday, so it will have to be this week for me.  But I heard mention
that perhaps another get together might happen after I'm gone.


> 
> >For everyone who will be there, please send me the fingerprint of your
> >GPG key.  [....]
> >That way I can print out a page for each person with the list of
> >fingerprints -- saves people having to copy them down somewhere.  
> 
> FWIW, there are proper key signing party protocols, complete with
> software, for doing these sorts of things.


There is nothing improper about this.  From the responses on the list, I
don't expect too many people, so I think it can be somewhat informal. 
But yes, I haven't said anything about how people will get each other's
key to actually sign, but that isn't done at the meeting.  The important
thing at the meeting is that people be convinced that they're talking to
a real person with the correct name, and that they have that person's
key fingerprint.  The rest can happen at each persons' convenience later
on.


> Photo ID, at least one piece normally needs to be government issued, and
> preferable at least two pieces of photo id.  It is, of course, up to the
> people you're exchanging keys with whether they'll believe you're who
> you say you are with less ID than that.


Sure.  I'll bring my passport, which convinces most authorities..  If it
doesn't convince you, then I don't know what to tell you, because in the
US I can get any number of other identities once I have a passport, so
they can't be considered independent evidence.  Of course US passports
now have so many holograms on them you can barely make out the picture,
so perhaps it is less convincing then blinding nowadays.

thanks,
Valient

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