[Swlug] Meeting << Cardiff >> this Tuesday - keysigning party!

[Mark Einon]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:16:14AM +0100, gedge-l-swlug at yadn.org wrote:
> ---- REMINDER
> 
> The next SWLUG meeting in Cardiff
> will be held on Tuesday (10/June/2014)
> from around 7pm.
> 
> Please check the web site - http://swlug.org - for any details/updates
> (or http://twitter.com/SWLUG).

I'll be there in www.thecityarmscardiff.com from 7ish.

To make the event a bit more useful, there will also be an 'informal'
PGP keysigning party. In order to participate, you'll need a PGP key.
Details on how to get one, if you haven't got one already, and more
keysigning information can be found at:

http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html

Some keyservers to use to upload your public keys are:

http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/
http://pgp.mit.edu/

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What's a key-signing party?

A key-signing party is a get-together with PGP users for the purpose
of meeting other PGP users and signing each other's keys. This helps
to extend the "web of trust" to a great degree. Also, it sometimes
serves as a forum to discuss strong cryptography and related issues.

Required Items?

        1. Physical attendance
        2. Government-issued picture ID
        3. Your key ID, key type, HEX fingerprint, and key size
        4. A pen/pencil or whatever you'd like to write with....
        5. NO computer

Why should I use PGP?

You should use PGP, if you need (or want) to protect your personal
emails from being read by individuals or entities other than your
intended recipient(s). PGP, when used correctly, can provide message
privacy, message integrity, message authentication, and to some
degree non-repudibility.

OK. What are some good applications of PGP?

Protection of email traffic of a sensitive nature, such as the
coordination of response to ongoing security incidents, requests
for DNS modifications, requests for networking changes and exchange
of sensitive personal information like SSNs. At the very least, it
would be useful to have all such messages signed, so the recipients
could be sure that the notes were not forged.

Cheers,

Mark