LPM: Re: Keysigning

[Rich Bowen]

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:12:04 -0500
From: Ken Rietz <krietz at krietz.org>
To: lexington-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
Subject: Re: LPM: Keysigning

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:06:16PM -0500, give or take a bit, David Hempy wrote:
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> > Subject: 	Re: LPM: Keysigning
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> Okay...maybe this falls under the "If you have to ask..." category, but I just have to ask...
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> What is this all about?  Are you talking about police-style fingerprints, or some kind of digital signature?
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> Curious and confused,
> -dave

Hey, I know where you are coming from. It has taken me a while to get
any grasp of this at all.

The "keys" that are signed are digital signatures, and the keysigning is
all about verifying other people's keys based on face-to-face contact
and checking identification. 'Yes, this person is who he/she claims to
be.' It's something of a growing subculture, based around PGP or GPG
encryption programs. Those programs provide the keys to be signed.

More info than you could possibly want is at (and linked from)

http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html

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Ken Rietz: krietz(at)qx.net;ken.rietz(at)asbury.edu
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