[wellylug] Re: Mini-Keysigning @ Meeting of 10th April
Jethro Carr
jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Sat Apr 8 20:30:34 NZST 2006
oops, that should be the 10th of April. :*)
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 20:28 +1200, Jethro Carr wrote:
> hi all,
>
> at the end of the last meeting I said that I planned to hold a
> mini-keysigning.
>
> If you are interested, please reply to this email, so I can get an idea
> of how many people really are interested. It might be 0, 5, 10 or 20.
> I'm really not sure. :-)
>
> My presentation (presented last meeting) on GPG is available below, if
> you want to learn how to use GPG, and what it is for.
> http://www.jethrocarr.com/articles/presentations/downloads/gnupg-presentation.pdf
>
>
> And here are the keysigning instructions:
> ---
>
> 1) Setup a key, and upload it to a GPG key server. For simplicity,
> everyone should use the same server “pgp.mit.edu”. To upload your key to
> that server:
> gpg --keyserver=pgp.mit.edu --send-keys keyid
>
>
> 2) Make a business card, or a strip of paper with either your key ID or
> email address and your GPG fingerprint on it.
>
> 3) Bring plenty of those cards to the next meeting. Use the number of
> replies + 5 to gauge the number to bring.
>
> 4) At the meeting, everyone with a GPG key can get together, hand each
> other cards, and then go home, sign the keys, and upload the signed key
> to the same server. Details on the after-meeting part will be posted to
> this list after the meeting.
>
>
> The main thing you need by the meeting to get the key setup, and
> uploaded to the keyserver. After the meeting comes the more complex part
> of keysigning.
>
>
> If you get stuck, please just send me an email.
>
>
> thanks,
>
--
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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