This is an early (very early) announcement that we will be holding a key signing party during the august penguins event on August 2nd.
What is a key signing party? A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a great degree. What is key signing? Key signing is act of digitally signing a public key. You can digitally sign your own public key, or another entity's public key. Key signing is done to verify that a given public key really does belong to the entity that appears to own the key. In a sense, key signatures validate public keys. This is the way in which key signing builds the web of trust. The reason I'm announcing it now is to give any one interested ample advance notice, and to give those of you who do not yet have PGP keys time to get a key pair. I will post a specific announcement with instructions for participants in two weeks. In the mean time, here are good links on PGP keys, key parties, and the web of trust: key party docs: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2002/gpg.php http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html gpg: http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html See y'all there. -- http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/
msg20152/pgp00000.pgp
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