[GTALUG] GnuPG key signing party over Zoom?

[Scott Frederick]

Another factor to consider when signing a key is, "does this person
understand GnuPG, and can I trust keys that THEY have signed?". That is
what the web of trust is, a chain of trust. We assign trust to a key
based on our confidence in the diligence of the key owner, and
implicitly trust, to some degree, keys that they have signed.

Having said that, there should be a way to have a key signing via
conferencing app.

Scott

On 2020-04-26 11:04 p.m., Bob Jonkman via talk wrote:
> I stopped reading the phildev.com article when it insisted on third-party photo ID. The point of keysigning is not to verify a person's right to drive or access to health care, it's to associate a key with the identity you use to communicate. Often, that identity is a persistent pseudonym, intended to avoid the very third-parties that issue photo ID.
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> I've run a few formal and informal keysigning parties. I've written up some instructions at https://sobac.com/wiki/Formal_Keysigning 
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> I'd be interested in seeing if it can be adapted it for use in a video or audio conference.
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> On April 26, 2020 10:07:35 PM EDT, Rouben via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> Hi GTA LUG folks,
>>
>> Do you think it’s doable? Based on instructions here I think these can
>> be
>> adapted for Zoom or similar...
>> https://www.phildev.net/pgp/gpgsigning.html
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>> Also I’m curious to see if/what key signing policies folks here adhere
>> to.
>> Here’s a fairly comprehensive example:
>> http://www.arasca.com/olaf/pgp/policy.html
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>> I brought this up before, but unfortunately found the interest was not
>> quite there, coupled with lack of time to do this face to face in the
>> past,
>> the proposed event never took place. I’m therefore wondering if the
>> current
>> predicament of staying at home and holding meetings over Zoom (or
>> similar
>> platforms) can help rekindle this and make it actually happen.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Rouben
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