[wellylug] Re: Mini-Keysigning @ Meeting of 10th April

Timothy Goddard interfecus at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 13:34:03 NZST 2006


Jethro Carr wrote:

>oops, that should be the 10th of April. :*)
>
>
>On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 20:28 +1200, Jethro Carr wrote:
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>>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:
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>>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,
>>
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Hi Jethro and all,

I think I might come along to this meeting and would like to take part
in the key signing. Is a passport by itself acceptable for
identification or would 2 pieces of ID be better?

Cheers,

Timothy




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