Hi everyone! We had an informal pre-OSCON meeting and keysigning event after the Community Leadership summit today. There's a short summary from that meeting online [1] for people who didn't attend.
I also wanted to explain (as a part 2 to my previous email) about what to do once you get back from a keysigning event. The commands below are taken from V. Alex Brennen's excellent "The Keysigning Party HOWTO" [2], which I'd highly recommend to anyone who wants to organize their own keysigning party, with the caveats that 1) the instructions for generating a key are currently wrong (see my previous email for details), 2) the Political Activism section isn't keysigning-related =/. First, get the keys in question from the keyserver. Since we're an Ubuntu group, we may as well use the Ubuntu keyserver, so the command looks like this: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <Key_ID> where <Key_ID> is the 8-character code you got at the keysigning party. If you just have the long fingerprint code, it's the last 8 characters of that. If you have multiple keys to get, just list them all, separated by a space. ( I note that Neal didn't upload his key to the keyserver yet, so the meeting people will likely get an error saying his couldn't be found until he does that. ) Next, if you have the 40-character fingerprint, you can check it with: gpg --fingerprint <Key_ID> Next, sign each key: gpg --sign-key <Key_ID> Finally, send the now-signed keys back to the keyserver: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --send-key <Key_ID> It's also nice to let the other person know that you signed their key (partly so that they get a reminder to do yours ;). Meeting people: all of yours are done (except Neal's). Again, if you have any questions about this, feel free to ask! ~ Robert [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09July19 [2] http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html -- Robert Wall <[email protected]> OpenPGP key: 0x0CBC1491 | see http://rww.name/rsaswitch.txt Webpage: http://rww.name/
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