+1 for someone interested in a PGP key signing party. (I am interested in a signing party)
On 04/26/2013 04:12 PM, Chris Egeland wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Michael Yanovich
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