On 07-10-2016 21:36, Shayon Pal wrote:
Sirtaj,
Could you please help me understand how/why is this exercise necessary
to attend the event?
I'm not clear on what you're asking here. Which exercise and which event?
If the question is whether the key signing is necessary to attend the
ILUGD meeting, then it's not necessary at all. The key signing event is
entirely optional and people who don't want to take part in it are free
to ignore it.
If you're asking why you need to add the key to the keyring first to be
part of the keysigning event: the goal is to ensure that everyone has
access to all the IDs and fingerprints beforehand to save time during
the event. Consider that in a "perfect" event with n participants, the
number of verifications is n factorial. If we have even 5-6 people and
each pair of people go off to verify each other's keys individually, the
event will take significantly longer than half an hour and is very
unlikely to go smoothly. This way each person gets their keys verified
by everyone one at a time, and the total time taken is proportional to
n. Then we can move on to the lightning talks and snacks and such and
everyone will be happy.
Have I misunderstood the question?
-Taj.
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