Topic: GPG Key Signing Party When: Tues February 13th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Coordinator: Frank Ball Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA, in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right - http://nblug.org/locations GPG Key Signing Party: It's time for another GPG key signing. We had one in May 2003 & August 2014. The point of this is to create a web of trust. By signing someones public key, you state that you have checked that the person that uses a certain keypair, is who he says he is and really is in control of the private key. This way a complete network of people who trust each other can be created. This network is called the Strongly connected set. Information about it can be found at http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ Before the meeting: 1) Generate a public/private keypair with the "gpg --gen-key" command (accept the defaults), see man gpg for more info. 2) Upload your key to a keyserver: gpg --send-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 3) Print out the key fingerprint with gpg --fingerprint Also include your full name, email address, and Key ID#. Bring this to the meeting, and optionally make extra copies to hand out. 4) Email me at frank(a)nblug.org with the fingerprint, email address, full name, and Key ID. I'll have a list of everyone's info to hand out. During the meeting: Verify your GPG key fingerprint on the list I hand out and verify your identity (with photo ID). After the meeting: 1) Download the all of the keys for the fingerprints verified at the meeting 2) add them to your keyring 3) sign them 4) upload your key again. More info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html