Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:06:13 -0500 Reply-To: "V. Alex Brennen" Sender: Campus Computer Coordinators From: "V. Alex Brennen" Subject: PGP Key Signing Party! Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There will be a PGP key-signing party held during the Advanced Linux Users Meeting on Wednesday January 17, 2001 from 8:30pm to 9:00pm at the Market Street Pub in Gainesville, Florida. Full details at: http://www.cryptnet.net/events/pgp-party-1.html What's a key-signing party? A key-signing party is a get-together with PGP users for the purpose of meeting other PGP users and signing each other's keys. This helps to extend the "web of trust" to a great degree. Also, it sometimes serves as a forum to discuss strong cryptography and related issues. Required Items? 1. Physical attendance 2. Positive picture ID 3. Your key ID, key type, HEX fingerprint, and key size 4. A pen/pencil or whatever you'd like to write with.... 5. NO computer Why should I use PGP? You should use PGP, if you need (or want) to protect your personal emails from being read by individuals or entities other than your intended recipient(s). PGP, when used correctly, can provide message privacy, message integrity, message authentication, and to some degree non-repudibility. OK. What are some good applications of PGP? Protection of email traffic of a sensitive nature, such as the coordination of response to ongoing security incidents, requests for DNS modifications, requests for networking changes and exchange of sensitive personal information like SSNs. At the very least, it would be useful to have all such messages signed, so the recipients could be sure that the notes were not forged. Graphs of the Web of Trust formed at the last keysigning party in Gainesville are available from: http://www.cryptnet.net/people/vab/dog/ Please forward this note to anyone who may be interested in attending. - VAB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6WPJ++pIJc5kqSz8RAmu1AJ9ebWLXrWnP+Pr/vuUGzfYe+H0qjgCfeKHQ Ys6B8Isg5/+CpaPc+posd5w= =akYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----