[Wolves] Please sign my GPG key

[Ron Wellsted]

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Dave Foster wrote:
> how do you set this up then?
>  
> Dave.
> 
>  
> On 12/03/07, *Alex Willmer* <alex at moreati.org.uk
> <mailto:alex at moreati.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     GPG users,
> 
>     I have a GPG key finally, key id 5A6F95BE.
> 
>     I'd like to exchange signatures with you, should you be willing.
> 
>     I'll be bringing slips with my key fingerprint & photo ID to this week's
>     meeting.
> 
>     Regards, Alex
> 

See http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html - basically gpg allows you
to prove you identity electronically over the 'net.  This allows you to:

1/ prove that the email with you from address really came form you (gpg
signing (as this message is))
or
2/ by encrypting the message, prevent anybody but the intended recipient
from reading it.

A normal email is like writing a message in pencil on a
postcard,everybody who handles the message can read and alter it as they
wish.  Using gpg signing is like writing the message in ballpoint then
laminating the postcard.  Any attempt to alter the message will destroy
the signature.

(Sounds like a subject for a mini-talk, what have I just talked myself
into?)

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Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
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