PGP signing party

[Shachar Shemesh]

Last year's raving success (I exchanged keys with Marcus) gives appetite 
for more.

So, if you always wanted to have a PGP key that most of the free 
software will know [1].
If you wanted to be able to carry out encrypted secure conversations online.
Or if you just want a chance to brag about what well connected key you 
have [2].

We will (try) to hold a PGP key signing party at wineconf this year. In 
order to participate, it is positively absolutely necessary that you:
1. Have a PGP key. You can generate one for yourself using gpg.
2. Send the PGP key finger print to me AT LEAST A WEEK BEFORE THE 
CONFERENCE. Any later then that, and it is not certain that we'll manage 
to get your key on the printed piece of paper that is necessary for 
carrying out the party.
3. Bring a copy you can trust to wineconf, to make sure other people are 
really signing your key (i.e. - that I'm not pulling anybody's leg).
4. Bring an identifying ID to wineconf. Two is preferable. Passport or a 
driver license in a language people can read. If you can only bring one, 
a passport is definitely preferable.

The full details of what a key signing party is, why are the procedures 
as they are, and what's so important about *not* signing the keys with 
your laptop at the party can be found at 
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html

Note: No aliases on PGP keys. If your PGP key says "lord master of 
compiler optimization", then your passport had better say the same or no 
one will be able to sign your key.

          Shachar

[1] My key is signed by RMS himself 
(http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xCDBDBCE2). This 
means that any key that I sign is just two keys away from the very 
inventor of free software.
[2] See [1]

-- 
Shachar Shemesh
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