friends --
If any of you are #1 going to Cleveland next week and #2 have a PGP
public key that you're willing to share, please bring printed copies of
your key fingerprints.
This is a good thing to do in any case: have biz cards or other
immutable media with PGP verification info to share when you meet people
in person.
I won't be attending the conference (more reasons than I can discuss),
but I live not too far away so hope to be in the area ... and I WILL
HAVE such fingerprinty papers on my person.
This all comes to mind because the "mainframers web of trust" has popped
up on the radar again.
We held a traditional PGP key signing party at VM Workshop a couple
times, but that was pre-pandemic and we've all slept since then.
The rationale for in-person fingerprint assurance is to promote the
individual trust model used by PGP (and GPG).
Contrast with the PKI trust model, which, while more widely implemented,
requires a third party and usually also requires formal compensation.
(The certificate issuers have real costs that must be covered.)
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