GPG/PGP key signing anyone?

[Ronnie T Livingston]

thanks for the information Brian,  any weekend is good for me if it doesnt
take too long :)

-Ronnie

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Brian Russo wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:01:32PM -1000, John & Sheila Nickerson wrote:
> > Sure, sounds good.  guess I'd have to generate a key first tho ....
> >
> > Do we have to meet to sign.  My reading of the man page makes it look like we
> > could do it over the net.
>
> We have to meet, and exchange ID, passport or driver's license is
> usually fine, (depends on level of paranoia). I'll bring my
> passport.
>
> Basically how it works is, everyone brings an appropriate ID, and
> several (one for each other person) pieces of paper, preferably
> legibly printed out, containing gpg --fingerprint <yourkey> output.
>
> In my case this is..
> pub  1024D/54D81666 2000-10-11 Brian Russo (wolfie) <brian at entropy.net>
> Key fingerprint = 404E 87E8 DD0C 275B 742B  09AD 2243 839C 54D8 1666
> uid                            Brian Russo (wolfie) <brusso at phys.hawaii.edu>
> uid                            Brian Russo (wolfie) <wolfie at debian.org>
> sub  2048g/08BD1E69 2000-10-11 [expires: 2011-05-05]
>
>
> The main part to be interested in is the long fingerprint, i.e.
> 404E 87E8 DD0C 275B 742B  09AD 2243 839C 54D8 1666.
> Note the last 8 elements of this are my short ID (54D81666).
> The short version is more convenient, but should not be used when
> authenticating, as there is a much greater chance of collision.
>
> There's ways to do this without paper, but I prefer this method,
> even if you have large groups of people, because it's cool to meet
> the person whose key your signing individually.
>
>
> I recommend you read
> http://www.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/faq-06.html
> (The entire thing is good, but section 6 is relevant to signing).
>
>
> Anyhow, seems like there's about 6 or so people interested, since
> we'll all want to exchange sigs, it makes sense to meet somewhere.
> I propose this weekend, perhaps Saturday?
> Probably in the afternoon or evening? Depends on what is
> convenient/what obligations you have.
>
> I live on-campus, and don't have a car, but I can walk anywhere
> relatively close (i.e. not kailua). Suggestions for a site?
>
>
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