Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:28:25 -0400 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: kernel.org keysigning party for the Boston area: October 18, 2011 |
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:31:54AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I will be holding a key signing party in Cambridge on Tuesday, October > 18, from 4-5pm for folks in the Boston greater metropolitan area. > > Anyone who is interested should send me their key-id by Tuesday noon > US/Eastern, and I will give those folks the details about where we will > be holding the key signing party. Please put "BOSTON KEY SIGNING" in > the subject line. > > Please feel free to forward this to any fellow kernel devs who might not > be reading LKML. >
Reminder, please send me your key-id today, or Tuesday at the latest, if you would like to participate in the Boston area Key Signing.
> - Ted
> > > What's a key-signing party? > > A key-signing party is a get-together with PGP users for the purpose of > meeting other PGP users and signing each other's keys. This helps to > extend the "web of trust" to a great degree. Also, it sometimes serves > as a forum to discuss strong cryptography and related issues. > > What do I need for this party? > > Required Items > Physical attendance > Positive picture ID > Your Key ID, Key type, HEX fingerprint, and Key size > A pen/pencil or whatever you'd like to write with.... > NO computer > > Required Process > > 1. All attendees send their public keys to a public keyserver. For this > party, we'll use keyserver.cryptnet.net. If for some reason you don't > want your key to be in a public keyserver, but still want to > participate, please let me know. > > 2. All attendees send their key ID, key type, fingerprint, and key size to > the host, tytso@mit.edu, who will compile everyone's key information. > > 3. The host prints a list with everyone's key ID, key type, > fingerprint, and key size from the compiled keyrings and distributes > copies of the printout at the meeting. > > 4. Attend the party. Bring along a paper copy of your key ID, key type, > fingerprint, and key size that you obtained from your own keyring. You > must also bring along a suitable photo ID. Instruct the attendees at the > beginning that they are to make two marks on the listing, one for > correct key information (key ID, key type, fingerprint, and key size) > and one if the ID check is ok. > > 5. At the meeting each key owner reads his key ID, key type, > fingerprint, key size, and user ID from his own printout, not from the > distributed listing. This is because there could be an error, intended > or not, on the listing. This is also the time to tell which ID's to sign > or not. If the key information matches your printout then place a > check-mark by the key. > > 6. After everyone has read his key ID information, have all attendees > form a line. > > 7. The first person walks down the line having every person check his > ID. The second person follows immediately behind the first person and > so on. > > 8. If you are satisfied that the person is who they say they are, and > that the key on the printout is theirs, you place another check-mark > next to their key on your printout. > > 9. Once the first person cycles back around to the front of the line he > has checked all the other IDs and his ID has been checked by all others. > > 10. After confirming that the key information on the key server matches > the printout that you have checked, sign the appropriate keys. Keys > should only be signed if they have two check-marks. If you are using > Debian or Ubuntu, the "caff" (certifying authority fire and forget) > script can be found in the "signing-party" package along with other > useful scripts, which makes it much easier to sign the keys. For > Fedora, the "caff" script can be found in the "pgp-tools" package. > > 11. Send the signed keys back to the keyservers, or to owners of the > key. > > Other questions about signing keys? > > You may want to read the Keysigning Party Howto which includes an > explanation of the concepts behind keysigning, instructions for hosting > a keysigning party, instructions for participating in a keysinging > party, and step by step instructions for signing other's keys. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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