On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:15, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2002, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>
> > Even better would be to get a web of trust going between Philip and some
> > of the more active Exim users/contributors. Unfortunately, I don't
> > travel very much, and most people have very little reason to travel to
> > my little corner of the planet, so I've never been able to properly join
> > a web of trust.
>
> I don't travel all that much, and although I do now possess a laptop
> (hmm, it's a whole year now since I got it), I mainly use it just for
> presentations. But I guess I could be taught how to carry around things
> for signing etc. But not till the book is done. :-)
Actually, you don't need a laptop (or any other computing device) around
for the face-to-face portion of verifying someone's identity and the
association with their PGP key - all you need is the fingerprint of your
PGP key printed out on a piece of paper and a picture ID.
See Kevin W. Herron's page about PGP key signing parties:
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http://www.herrons.com/kb2nsx/keysign.html>
Jeff
