[ale] [ANNC] ALE-NW & ALE CENTRAL: GPG Keysigning Party & Solstice Social: Thurs., Dec. 12, 2013

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

The final master list of the keys on the keyring has been generated and 
uploaded to the URL mentioned in the announcement. If you're attending 
the key signing you can download your copy and verify the checksums at 
this time as no more updates will be made to the file before the meeting 
tonight.

On 08.12.2013 11:03, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> For December this year we’ll be combining our ALE CENTRAL
> meeting with our ALE-NW meeting (at their usual time and place)
> with a GPG/PGP Key Signing party.  Then you're invited to join
> us for the "after party" with a little solstice season socializing at
> the Marietta Diner.
> =====
> ALE GPG/PGP Keysigning Party
> ===
> 7:30pm to ~9:15pm
> SPSU Campus, Atrium “J” Bldg. rm J-202,
> on Thursday, December 12th.
> ===
> Organized, introduced and presented by Jeremy Bouse,
> with an intro covering some typical daily use cases along
> with explanation of the web of trust and why we do
> the keysigning events themselves,
> (directions link and parking notes below)
>
> Synopsis:
> – For those who participate, the key signing party serves to confirm
> the identity of other PGP Key users by connecting them to a “key 
> ring”
> and including them in the “web of trust” needed to validate their 
> keys,
> signatures and identities in the wider world.
>
> – Our ardent GPG enthusiast, keymaster Jeremy “Clortho” Bouse, will
> present a brief GPG/PGP introduction and direct the key signing 
> process
> using the Hash Based Method as explained here:
> 
> <http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html>
> Fully detailed “How To” pages with shell command line examples and
> background information on the process can be found at these links:
> <http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_131212.html>
> <http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-131212.html>
>
> – Participation in the key signing requires advanced preparations,
> including generating and verifying any new keys you want to have
> signed. The official ALE Key Signing Event has been registered on
> the Biglumber Key Server:
> <http://biglumber.com/x/web?ev=46341>
> …and ALL keys that participants want to have signed must be
> registered with the official Biglumber Keyring:
> <http://biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=9655>
>
> – The deadline for uploading your key to the Keyring is midnight,
> (12:00am) on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (In other words, any
> time _before_ Wednesday, December 11).
>
> – The final step will be to download and print out Jeremy’s FINAL key 
> ring
> text file available on THURSDAY, 2013.12.12 (the day of the signing 
> party).
> The link for that is <http://undergrid.net/ale13/ksp-ale13.txt>
> This link will also be announced with reminders to download on the 
> ALE
> mailing list. After downloading, fill in the checksum information for 
> all
> of the keys you have registered in the ring so you can easily confirm 
> their
> authenticity.
>
> A reminder that fully detailed “How To” pages with command line 
> examples
> and background information on the process are found at these links:
> <http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_131212.html>
> <http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-131212.html>
> If you still have questions or need clarifications AFTER reviewing 
> all of
> the instructions above, you can email Jeremy via 
> jbouse[AT]debian.org.
>
> ========================
> ADDITIONAL PGP / GPG INFORMATION ON VIDEO:
> – For those unfamiliar with PGP or interested in learning more about 
> the
> GnuPG implentation of PGP cryptography and the value of protecting 
> your
> privacy and your identity with PGP signatures, we suggest you review 
> our
> video of David Tomaschik’s March 2011 presesntation on the topic,
> “Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPG”
> This is available for download or streaming under the file name
> “ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4″ at <http://arxion.net/ale/>
> The video file is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
>
> ========================
> DIRECTIONS
> Southern Polytechnic State University
> Room J-202 of the Atrium (J) building
>
> For a campus map and a link to directions please see
> http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
> AFTER 7:00pm there is Free Parking in non reserved
> spaces of the P60 deck. Parking there before 7:00pm
> may get you ticketed, booted or towed.
> Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance
> directly east of the P60 parking deck.
> =========================
> As always, this announcement is mirrored at <http://ale.org>
>
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