-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, Something that I've been considering doing for some time is hosting a GPG keysigning party at SYN/HAK in Akron. The purpose of this email is to gauge interest in this type of event.
What's a key-signing party? A key-signing party is a get-together with GPG/PGP users for the purpose of meeting other GPG/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. Why should I use GPG/PGP? You should use GPG/PGP, if you need (or want) to protect your personal emails from being read by individuals or entities other than your intended recipient(s). GPG/PGP, when used correctly, can provide message privacy, message integrity, message authentication, and to some degree non-repudibility. What is GPG/PGP? PGP is Pretty Good Privacy, a data encryption and decryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communications. ~Wikipedia GPG is the GNU Privacy Guard, a GPL Licensed alternative to the [commercially available] PGP suite of cryptographic software. ~Wikipedia If you are interested in attending something like this, please let me know. I am thinking some time in June would be an ideal time to host the aforementioned party. If you can think of any other people or organizations that might be interested in such an event, please forward this email their way. Keep in mind, this is not an announcement of a keysigning party, I am currently only gauging interesting in such an event at this time. Thanks, Chris Egeland http://synhak.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRet+hAAoJEDLsJypzd4Qj0MQH/0GgzN8FKv6Vagwd/eD+luL+ q5hZV5rQ3roxKmhUQ803c2Q5eXb4LOhYFg6MSr4PhwBCs9A1a7f6DxtdNMtFvYjN l5W/Es4hfaZF+he9cdaXJKy3FvE7AIDFabLW83hVP6Ig0MWzb+pLzYOpdHFZ1gQx aRy4BexrOUSlCLpdCrapyEN73sHEptD7A09bGqU7V8Ibz/peDJBf+kqka1A7IhLz eMkp6S7LZnQ6fuSGglSPf0wvcW0T+CISE8AEPS5AOi9hrVibJ+XcVhcFfhuIDf2S s/qyzQrPqm82cgbV/d8mBWTsoS8ZGh5TCOA5OUH+QArh8RitZjkwbX5nUo4QVYU= =sEdc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
