I’ll be at SHARE … will need to find a printer though. I have PGP keys with an Apache ID ([email protected]) and my personal ([email protected]) FWIW
On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 13:38 Rick Troth < [email protected]> wrote: > 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.) > > > -- > -- R; <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
