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Keysigning party? Keysigning party!
Direct all questions to officers@'''<code>echarlie at vtluug.org</code>'''
The purpose of this keysigning party is to bring bring together a meeting of
people who are interested in cryptography and/or digital privacy with the
goal of strengthening the web of trust.
VTLUUG hosts these from time to time to promote cryptography standards such as
PGP, to raise awareness of cryptography, and to allow members to authenticate
each other for distribution of semi-sensitive information.
Some samples on running keysigning parties:
Event on biglumber: http://biglumber.com/x/web?ev=28819
We '''could''' add an event keyring, or perhaps a long-time even with keyring, to simplify
identification of members with keys, and to ease the process of fetching all of the keys, however
medium such as email. This only works, however, if you have some method of
verifying that the other party is indeed who they claim to be. This problem
is solved through keysigning: you are verifying first -hand that the otherparty's identity and key match , as well as declaring this to anyone who
trusts you. These interconnected chains of verification form a web of trust
and allow secure communication between previously unacquainted or unverified
generate one. For the Linux and BSD operating systems, we recommend [http://gnupg.org GnuPG] version 2.0 or later
or one of its frontends such as [http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpa/index.en.html GPA] or [http://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/ Seahorse]. For Windows we
suggest [http://www.gpg4win.org Gpg4Win]. For OSX we suggest [https://gpgtools.org/ GPG Tools] . Both OSX and Windows can run the official GnuPG client,
if you are okay with working from the command line. Follow the associated documentation to generate a keypair,
or refer to the ArchWiki Page on GnuPG.
If you wish to attend, please bring '''two forms of valid identification''' as well as paper copies of your key fingerprint.