Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 19, 2006 Keysigning - Signup Please

[Jerry Feldman]

 When: September 20, 2006 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A)
Topic: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party=20
	please register your key in advance to participate!=20
Moderator: BLU volunteers
 Location:  MIT Building E51 Room 315

    A talk about PGP and GnuPG, followed by a keysigning party.
Register your key in advance to participate! Registration URL below;
http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php
http://blu.org/keysignings/

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP
encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign
each others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust
to a great degree. Key signing parties also serve as great
opportunities to discuss the political and social issues surrounding
strong cryptography, individual liberties, individual sovereignty, and
even implementing encryption technologies or perhaps future work on
free encryption software.

    The purpose of the meeting is to authenticate each other, i.e.
verify everybody's key ids and key fingerprints. Participants sign each
others' keys offline.

In order to complete the keysigning in the allotted time, we follow
a formal procedure as seen in V. Alex Brennen's "GnuPG Keysigning Party
HOWTO" (http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party=
.html)

It is strongly advised that if you have not been to a keysigning party
before, you read this document.

We're using the List-based method for this keysigning party, and
the keyserver at pgp.mit.edu. It is essential that, before the meeting,
you register on the signup form listed in the attachments. You should
bring at least one picture ID with you. You must also bring your own
printout of the report on that page, so you can check off the
names/keys of the people you have personally verified.

The list will be printed on Wednesday afternoon, the day of the
meeting; be sure to regsiter your key for the keysigning before that.
The official cutoff time is 3:00 pm.

Also, in addition to the PGP/GnuPG event, Bill Horne will be
available to certify ID's as a Thawte Notary. Bill will require two
government-issued ID's and a copy of each for Bill to keep. Bill says
he'll waive his fee for the occasion.

--=20
Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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