On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jacob Peddicord <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Dead on. Check out my key [1] and Jacob's key[0]. Might explain a bit :) [0] http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xDDB84936F43E714A [1] http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xF7EBEE8EB7982329 > > -- > 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 > -- #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq _______________________________________________ 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
