Keysigning and Keybase.io

[Shane Spencer]

Most group events like this are a prime target for the awesomeness surrounding public key signing and creating authentic webs of trust.  For a bit of a background see (and ignore the article title): http://www.networkworld.com/news/64452_05-17-1999.html

In the event you want to get your key generated or signed at the event there's a few bases that need to be covered:

  1. Bring a few forms of identification.  Passports are great stuff.  Licenses are pretty rad.

  2. Bring a computer :)

There are a handful (probably more) of webs of trust out there that cover several topics including:

  PGP/GPG message signing and encryption

    Public keyservers and vanilla PGP/GPG keys

    GSWoT.org

    Keybase.io (Beta)

  SSL authentication

    CACert.org

  BTSync Key Exchange

I have several Keybase.IO invites which is a different approach toward verification.  If anybody would like an invite and has access to the methods they use for verification (see their page) they will probably get 4 invites they can extend to others at the event after verification (takes a day or so).

- Shane

[Coral Sheldon-Hess]

Shane, are you willing to do a bit of a primer on PGP (or your key solution of choice)? Like, assuming someone has never heard of it, take five minutes to explain what it is, why it's useful, and kind of how to use it? 

An intro would not only make everyone smarter; it would communicate that it's ok not to know something and would make the key signing more open and less mysterious.

(I'm a tech geek, and I don't have a key, because I am unclear on the specifics of how  to get one and how I'd use it. I know what it is and that I SHOULD have a key, so that's something, but I'm also interested in security and privacy. There will be people in the room who aren't into security and privacy, who have no idea about this stuff, and I don't just mean the Learn-to-Code track.) 

If there's an intro, I think this is an awesome idea!

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[Shane Spencer]

I could quite possibly do such a thing yes :)

If anybody is interested in learning more about it I ask that you bring some identification (Passport, Licence, State ID) so that if you do decide to explore the different webs of trust out there that have the means to do so.

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