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

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Tue Jun 24 09:44:35 PDT 2008


Sounds good to me.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:02:06PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
> 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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