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

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Jun 23 19:02:06 PDT 2008


How about July 1st the next Lugod social.

Alex

Brian Lavender wrote:
> You will have to forgive me. I was playing a bit of a joke. I was
> replying to a thread almost three years old. :) But the idea of a key
> party sounds cool, so in a way, I was being serious. So, some day
> other than Monday, Nov 20, 2005. 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:48:28PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> 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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