At Ubuntu Down Under in Sydney, Australia there will be an OpenPGP (pgp/gpg) keysigning party.
The party will be on Friday, April 29th, at 19:30.
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.
Please read section One of the GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO (note: we are doing the party slightly different, so the other chapters do not 100% apply).
The Party will be conducted using Len Sassaman's Efficient Group Key Signing Method which is a protocal to do keysignings in a way that is faster than the way many people may be familiar with:
If you intent to participate please send your ascii armored public key to ksp-udu@yukidoke.org by 10am, April 29th, 2005.
By lunch on the 29th, you will be able to fetch both the complete
keyring with all the keys that were submitted along with a text
file (ksp-udu.txt
)
giving the fingerprint of each key on the ring.
ksp-udu.txt
is correct.
Also compute the MD5 hash of ksp-udu.txt
. One way to do this is
with md5sum invoked as follows:
% md5sum ksp-udu.txt
or
gpg --print-md md5 ksp-udu.txt
Just to be sure that you have no problems with the download, here is the MD5 hash as we have calculated it:
MD5 = 46 72 DE 5C AE 0D 49 44 AA 8E 72 6F 14 14 B8 43
Note that this is just a hint - you must do the check yourself.
I will also read the SHA1 hash, so you can calulate that too with
sha1sum
or gpg --print-md sha1
).
ksp-udu.txt
here that you can work
from. You will not be using this paper to check the
fingerprints — you check against the file — but will use
this is a checklist for people that are participating.ksp-udu.txt
. Verify that the hash
recited matches what you computed. This guarantees that all
participants are working from the same list of keys.Downloads (Do not exist yet):
ksp-udu.txt
;
check that your fingerprint is correct.ksp-udu.txt
so that we can ensure
we are all working with the same copy.If you have questions please ask Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@ubuntu.com>.
Special thanks goes goes to Peter Palfrader who provided the scripts and text used at Debconf3 and LinuxTag (2003 and 2004) whose reuse made putting together this keysigning easy and possible.
Relevant Information and Sources for More Information
Last modified: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:24:25 +0200
Benjamin Mako Hill
<mako@ubuntu.com>