[SLUG] GPG key signing party

[Stephen O'Neill]

Al Girling wrote:
> or the Howto I've put together at:
> 
> http://www.ryedale.lug.org.uk/howto.html


It was all a bit scary - one thing that confused me was what my 'User Id 
(UID)' was and what my Key ID was.

I figured out that my UID was "Stephen O'Neill", and the Key ID was the 
6 or so characters output from gpg at the end of generating my key.

I haven't figured out how I would retrospectively figure this out, but 
haven't tried very hard yet.

I couldn't decide whether to use a passphrase or passgen for my 
password. I decided to use passgen as choosing a passphrase that was 
over 12 chars was obviously going to be forgotten without much effort. I 
dunno how best to store my passgen password - what do others recommend?

I did the upload to subkeys.pgp.net part, a search immediately after on 
their site didn't show my key... though I'm writing this from memory 
(not at my machine now) and can't find the page I searched on. I'm 
guessing it will show up later.

One useful addition to the howto would be how to add multiple email 
addresses. A quick search helped, showing I needed the "adduid" command.

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~hbp4c/computing/mail/gpg/gpg-maintenance.html

It's a difficult concept this GPG stuff - I think part of the problem is 
  that it is a vast subject area, but another part of the problem is the 
terminology - there's lots of new stuff to learn!

I'm looking forward to meeting up when speaking to you guys will help my 
feeble mind to hang it all together. I will bring my laptop in case I've 
done anything wrong and so we can point at stuff and go "ooo, ahh".

Steve O