On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:11 PM, John Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, newbie here; what a "GPG signing"?
You can find a lot of info on it here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KeySigningParty Basically, GPG keys are used frequently online, especially in the free software world, to verify your identity. If you've even seen an email start with "---- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE -----" or have seemingly-random characters at the end, then the sender is using their GPG key to sign their message. Others can verify this signature against that person's public key to verify that it really was them who signed it. An important aspect of the key itself is how trusted it is. You can make your key more trustworthy by getting it "signed" by others in person to verify your identity. That's the point of these signing parties. -- Jacob Peddicord http://jacob.peddicord.net/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
