[wellylug] key signing in Wellington

[Chris Hodgetts]

What about those of you "IE ME" who dont believe in Govt. Issued Photo
ID's?

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:35, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> In message <1077676094.5604.7.camel at argo.local>, Valient Gough writes:
> >Great.. Sounds like an evening meeting on Thursday will work for at least some.
> >How about we try 7:30pm-ish at the Bristol Hotel/Pub on Cuba St. walking
> >mall near Ghuznee St.  I believe the address is 133 Cuba St.  I'll look
> >for a place to sit upstairs.
> 
> 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?  
> 
> Perhaps it'd make sense to have it a touch earlier in the evening, and
> then people could do both.
> 
> Also do you mean Thursday as in tomorrow, or Thursday as in next week?
> 
> >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.
> 
> >You'll also need to bring some form of government issued id (preferably
> >one that doesn't look like it was just printed out on your printer). 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Reading something like:
> 
> http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
> 
> might help with the organising.
> 
> Ewen
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