[TriLUG] Re: [Trilug-announce] SSL Security with CACert.org: May Meeting

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Wed May 10 21:24:44 EDT 2006


On 5/10/06, Jason Faulkner <jason at oldos.org> wrote:
> For people unfamiliar with gpg, will we be able to create a key and get
> people to sign it at the meeting?

Probably not a good idea,  you generally don't bring your actual
public key (let alone your private key) with you to a key signing. You
really only want to bring your key's fingerprint and your personal
ids.

Generating a key at home and getting the fingerprint isn't that hard,
have a look at

http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html

and the umbrella GPG how-to list:
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/howtos.html

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Rick DeNatale

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