Lightning Talks / Hackfest / GPG Key Signing

Coordinator: Frank Ball

Lightning Talks:

Have something you would like to present, but don’t have enough material for a full talk? Here’s your chance. Talk about anything Linux related.

Hackfest:

Bring your hardware to get help with it or just to show it off.

GPG Key Signing Party:

The point of this is to create a web of trust. By signing someone’s 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:

Create a GPG keypair, upload your public key to a keyserver, print out the fingerprint, mail it to me (frank@nblug.org) and bring copies to the meeting.

Details:

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@nblug.org with the fingerprint, email, 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:

Download the keys for the fingerprints verified at the meeting, add them to your keyring, sign them, and upload your key again.

More info:

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto
• http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html