[vox] Let's have a key signing party this Monday!

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Jun 23 16:48:28 PDT 2008


I'd come, although only if someone will also take the time to explain to 
me how to use the key properly.

Alex

Brian Lavender wrote:
> Key signing party sounds cool!
> 
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:09:05PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> Hey folks, I need some trustworthy folk to sign my GPG key so I can work
>> my way into the Debian and Ubuntu webs of trust in order to properly
>> upload packages.
>>
>> So, let's sign some keys this Monday.  Heck, we can even have a party!
>> There's a howto for it here:
>> http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
>>
>> I think the best way to do this is to select a hapless coordinator, who
>> comes with a printed list of all the keyids and fingerprints using the
>> handy pearl script there, which we then take a copy of so we can sign
>> keys in bulk.
>>
>> So, here is my keyid: 387EE263
>> My fingerprint is: 0CDE E38B C356 1EF8 BD46 82BE 5840 3026 387E E263
>> Name is: Scott Ritchie
>> Email is: scott at open-vote.org
>>
>> Now, if I am understanding this right, I go to the meeting with the key
>> and fingerprint, and you verify that it matches and I am me, and then
>> you go home and download my key off of a keyserver, verify that it's
>> fingerprint is the same, sign it and then upload it or send it to me
>> (and then I upload it).
>>
>> So, who else is in?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott Ritchie
>>


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