[sf-lug] Great book and an idea

[John]

A key signing party is a way for people who use the
OpenPGP<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2440>standard to encrypt to data
to verify that the person that signed a message
is really who they say they are. You generate your keys, the things you use
to verify who you are and encrypt the info, before hand and upload the
public key to a server on the internet. Then, at the party, people prove to
you who they are and let you know their fingerprint of their keys. Then,
after the party you sign their keys with your key. This extends what is
called the Web of Trust, because anyone who may not trust that person will
see that you have signed the key. This is over simplified and quite possibly
not entirely correct and I am sure we will talk about it more when it comes
time to create keys and what to do. Anyone who is more knowledgeable about
this stuff please speak up, I am on the edge of my computer skills here.

On 2/16/07, vincent polite <vpolitewebsiteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> What's a key signing?
>
> *Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu >* wrote:
>
> jim stockford wrote:
> > count me in the key-signing party, please.
> > i'd like to feel less confused about this stuff.
> >
> I'd jump in as well for a key signing party.
>
> Sameer
>
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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John Lowry
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