Re: [free-software-melb] Keysigning party

2013-08-11 Thread Adam Bolte
On 09/08/13 12:53, Fraser Tweedale wrote: I wrote a key submission application that you might find useful. It's pretty spartan, but I've use it for keysigning parties at linux.conf.au and other conferences and it does the job. https://github.com/frasertweedale/pgpsubmit Looks neat. I'll

Re: [free-software-melb] Keysigning party

2013-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com writes: As the meet-up is only a few days away, it's probably not reasonable to expect everyone will have time to send me keys prior to the event. Happy to do this if people want, but I agree with your assessment that leaning towards ad hoc might be the way

[free-software-melb] GnuPG key management (was: Free software discussion group this Thursday 15 August)

2013-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com writes: Also note on the strip if you want your signed key returned to you or published directly to a public keyserver. For the benefit of all participants, I strongly recommend all signed public keys get sent back to the public keyserver network. Remember,

Re: [free-software-melb] Keysigning party

2013-08-11 Thread Adam Bolte
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:02:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com writes: As the meet-up is only a few days away, it's probably not reasonable to expect everyone will have time to send me keys prior to the event. Happy to do this if people want, but I agree

Re: [free-software-melb] GnuPG key management

2013-08-11 Thread Glenn McIntosh
On 12/08/13 10:08, Ben Finney wrote: So I think it's impolite to make use of a keysigning party, then decline to put one's public key in the public keyserver network. What good reasons are there to abstain? I have come across one person who prefers to upload the signatures to the public

Re: [free-software-melb] GnuPG key management

2013-08-11 Thread Ben Finney
Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au writes: Otherwise, how can you be sure that the email address you just signed is correct? You don't need to know that it's correct. The purpose of your signature is not to say “this is a correct email address”, since that can change at any point in the