[TriLUG] KeySigning party during Hack Day

[Sarat Sreepathi]

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I was bothering folks at monthly Trilug meetings about organizing a key
signing event. From recent feedback, we concurred that it would be a
good idea to check out interest in the community at an event like the
upcoming Hack Day. I would appreciate feedback from anyone with prior
experience in organizing such events. Here goes my attempt.

There will be a PGP key-signing party held during the Hack Day on Sat
April 14, 2012 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm at the SplatSpace located at 331 W.
Main Street Durham, NC. This is a tentative time slot and can be moved
around based on people's availability.

More details at
http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html

Thanks,
Sarat.

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.

Required Items?
1. Physical attendance
2. Positive picture ID
3. Your key ID, key type, HEX fingerprint, and key size
4. A pen/pencil
5. NOT NEEDED computer

Why should I use PGP?
You should use PGP, if you need (or want) to protect your personal
emails from being read by individuals or entities other than your
intended recipient(s). PGP, when used correctly, can provide message
privacy, message integrity, message authentication, and to some degree
non-repudiability.

OK. What are some good applications of PGP?
Protection of email traffic of a sensitive nature, such as the
coordination of response to ongoing security incidents, requests for DNS
modifications, requests for networking changes and exchange of sensitive
personal information like SSNs. At the very least, it would be useful to
have all such messages signed, so the recipients could be sure that the
notes were not forged.

Please forward this note to anyone who may be interested in attending.

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Sarat Sreepathi
Doctoral Student
Dept. of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
sarat_s at ncsu.edu ~ (919)645-7775
http://www.sarats.com
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