[Cialug] GNUPG Key Signing Party at the next meeting?

Bryan Baker ka_klick at mac.com
Mon May 30 21:48:43 CDT 2005


OK, if it works for everybody else.
I can review the steps.
Lets see if my renewed cert works here now.

On May 29, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 09:03 -0500, Bryan Baker wrote:
>
>> I don't know, I've had pretty good luck with S/MIME which has built
>> in support in Moz/Thunderbird, Mail (OSX) and I believe Outlook/
>> Express/Entourage - which uses a third party, free (as in beer) cert
>> provided by THAWTE. Sure it can be a PITA too (mostly issues w/
>> expiry), but at least others can deal w/ the messages w/o additional
>> software.
>>
>> Once someone receives a signed message from me they have my public
>> key, and the mail client takes care of the rest. I did a presentation
>> about a year ago at the LUG on this ( and then at the MUG).
>>
>>
>
> Bryan,
>
> I also have a THAWTE certificate. I still think the key signing  
> party is
> a good idea though. I tend to use my GnuPGP key to encrypt files  
> and and
> such.
>
> Why don't we have a Presentation on PGP/GnuPGP by Ken followed by a
> S/MIME presentation by yourself?
>
> Agenda:
> 1. GnuPGP/PGP presentation
> 2. S/MIME presentation
> 3. Key signing party
> 4. Drinks
>
> -- 
> Kevin C. Smith
>
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