Thanks Matt!
I found two keys for your Apache address and four for your personal
address, all on the Ubuntu key server.
Downloaded all six. Will upload after face-to-face. (Lots of the older
key servers have failed for a variety of reasons.)
I'll point you at my downloadable keys (since the key servers are such a
train wreck lately) in separate email.
Most of mine are already under http://www.casita.net/ca/pgp/
all --
When you see a colleague in person, if you don't know them well then
share photo ID (passport, driving license, etc).
In all cases then exchange printed key fingerprints. Then when back at
your own keyboard, fetch the electronic copy and confirm the
fingerprints. Dun!
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On 8/15/25 10:58 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
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.)
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