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[Roland Turner]

Tom wrote:
 
> So are we going to have a key signing session at next months meeting?
> Should we just make key signing part of every meeting?
 
This has been something that I've been meaning to do something about for ages. (So is turning up to more LUG meetings :-))
 
I vote Yes on both counts, and am also willing to act as co-ordinator.
 
> I think it should be a mix of the two methods.  If people want their key
> signed they should send me their public key details.  I'll print off a
> number of forms along the lines of the one outlined on
>
> http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html
>
> Then we don't all go away with lots of bits of paper.  But I don't see
> us doing the full formal thing.  (that might be too amusing for the
> other people in the Pub :-) So we can just do the mingle thing.
 
I'm not sure what two methods you are mixing here. The HOWTO describes a "centralised" approach which requires a quiet environment and a "decentralised" approach where either the environment is noisy (a bar is one of the examples given) or the participants number in the hundreds.
 
The decentralised approach appears to be appropriate for our meetings as they are indeed in a bar. The decentralised approach has a further benefit for people who, like me, have a poor memory for names; as the ID and keyprint for a given signee are verified together, there is less scope for mistakes or tampering.
 
- Raz