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Our Next PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party

Our next Keysigning Party is scheduled for Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at Location to be determined.

Where

Location to be determined, .

When

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 from 18:30 to 21:00

How to Participate

  1. Create a PGP or GnuPG key, if you don't already have one;
  2. Post your key to subkeys.pgp.net;
  3. Add your key to the signup list for the upcoming BLU Keysigning;
  4. Show up at the meeting with proper identification, to verify other participants' identities and to allow them to verify yours;
  5. After the meeting, sign the keys of participants who have proven their identity to your satisfaction.

Our next PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party will be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2008. 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 purpose of the meeting is to authenticate each other, i.e. verify everybody's key ids and key fingerprints. Participants sign each others' keys offline.

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". It is strongly advised that if you have not been to a keysigning party before, you read this document.

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.

Participants currently signed up:

SeqKey IDKey OwnerKey FingerprintKey SizeKey Type
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
2 A9413B9F Eric J. Martin **NEW**,
Eric J. Martin
D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F 1024 DSA
3 9526096E Shaneal Manek **NEW**,
Shaneal Manek
70C6 E908 7EBF D5C7 3C8F 980F 8640 5CDB 9526 096E 1024 DSA


Previous Keysigning Parties

  1. September 19, 2007 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party
  2. September 20, 2006 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party
  3. August 17, 2005 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party VI
  4. September 15, 2004 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party V
  5. September 17, 2003 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party IV
  6. January 15, 2003 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party III
  7. December 19, 2001 :: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party
  8. September 18, 1996 :: PGP and Electronic Privacy

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