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PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party

Date and Time

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Presenter

Bill Ricker - bill.n1vux gmail com

Summary

A talk about PGP and GnuPG, followed by a keysigning party. Register your key in advance to participate!

Abstract

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a great degree. Key signing parties also serve as great opportunities to discuss the political and social issues surrounding strong cryptography, individual liberties, individual sovereignty, and even implementing encryption technologies or perhaps future work on free encryption software.

The basic workflow of signing someone's key is as follows:

• Verify that the person actually is who they claim to be;
• Have them verify their key ID and fingerprint;
• Sign their key;
• Send the signed key back to them

At the meeting, we go through the first two steps. Each person who preregistered their key will announce their presence and then read off their key ID and fingerprint, so everyone can verify that their copy of the list of keys is correct. Once we've run down the list, we line up, and each of us examines everyone else's photo IDs to verify that they are who they claim to be. After the meeting is over, each participant can then retrieve the keys that they've personally verified, sign those keys, and send the signed keys back to their respective owners.

In order to complete the keysigning in the allotted time, we follow a formal procedure as seen in V. Alex Brennen's "GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO", attached below. It is strongly advised that if you have not been to a keysigning party before, you read this document. We're using the List-based method for this keysigning party, and the keyserver at subkeys.pgp.net.

It is essential that, before the meeting, you register on the signup form listed in the attachments. You should bring at least one picture ID with you. You must also bring your own printout of the report on that page, so you can check off the names/keys of the people you have personally verified.

The list will be printed on Wednesday afternoon, the day of the meeting; be sure to register your key for the keysigning before that. The official cutoff time is 3:00 pm.

Seq	Key ID	Owner	Fingerprint	Size	Type	Matches?
1	D5C7B5D9	John Abreau (Personal email) , John M. Abreau , John M. Abreau , John M. Abreau	72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99	1024	RSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
2	32A492D8	John M. Abreau (new key for 2011) , John M. Abreau (new key for 2011) , John M. Abreau (new key for 2011) , John M. Abreau (new key for 2011)	7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8	3072	DSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
3	3BC1EB90	Jerry Feldman , Jerry Feldman , Jerry Feldman , Jerry Feldman (New Key)	49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90	2048	RSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
4	1C23B5F0	E.W. Peter Jalajas , [jpeg image of size 3018] , E.W. Peter Jalajas , E.W. Peter Jalajas (978-246-1066)	5D13 7C5C D003 D806 8BD1 438A B396 EC3D 1C23 B5F0	3200	RSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
5	4A73884C	Federico Lucifredi , Federico Lucifredi , Federico Lucifredi , Federico Lucifredi , Federico Lucifredi , [jpeg image of size 8244]	A273 4F57 58C0 7FE8 838D 4F87 AEEB EC18 4A73 884C	1024	DSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
6	47019916	Nicholas Pascucci (Comcast account) , Nick Pascucci , [jpeg image of size 4583]	FBB4 9FDB EBA8 24E2 CF48 0AB7 3940 3EE6 4701 9916	2048	RSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
7	9F86DC22	Benjamin M. Shapiro	8926 B923 7DF8 5D43 A0FA 9DF0 62D9 6BA0 9F86 DC22	2048	RSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID
8	B337127D	Adam Urban	6148 4E8F 3A4F 4894 B6E4 8F1D C236 A5B2 B337 127D	4096	RSA	[ ] Key Info [ ] Owner ID

Attachments

1. GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO
2. GNU Privacy Guard
3. BLU keysigning - key registration

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