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[Steve McMaster <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We use GPG (or GnuPG Privacy Guard, whichever you prefer) in our office. 
I'm wondering... if I get signed, I can then sign everyone's here and 
they have the same basic trust level that I do? Kinda new to that part 
of the PGP stuff.

Maybe we could try to organize a key signing party at OLF. Tons of geeks 
there. We have a guide here (not sure if its for outside use, I'll have 
to check) for setting it up on Windows in under one hour (well worth the 
sacrificed time, IMO), we could pass that out as well.

Actually:

http://www.hurricanelabs.com/october2008_story_2

Its a public document anyways.

Most of us use it, but don't fully understand it anyways, so maybe we 
can find a simple-English guide (or maybe I can talk the guy who wrote 
that into writing one) explaining everything about it.

We may or may not have a booth down there this year, but we can provide 
printed copies of the above article and a simple-English guide if we can 
find/write one.

</2_cents>

On 6/22/10 5:58 PM, Jon Buckley wrote:
> Very interesting, at work we use a "GPG" which my boss has set up &
> calls the "Group Policy Guidelines." However, in our case I suppose the
> "GNU Privacy Guard" is much more appropriate.
>
> Thanks Paul, I you really do learn something new every day, lol.
>
> Jon
>
> > On Jun 22, 2010 3:27 PM, "Paul Tagliamonte" <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:11 PM, John Kennedy <jakenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:jakenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> > > On 06/22/2010 12:32 PM, Jacob Peddicord wrote
> > >>
> > >> Let's definitely get the GPG signing going thi...
> >
> > No no! Quite alright!
> >
> > Gnu Privacy Guard[1][2] ( which is open-source PGP ( haha! ) )
> >
> > They are a way of establishing absolute identity. We sign them in
> > person, with IDs, to verify who is who. This creates a "Ring of trust"
> > so that any person inside the ring can trust anyone inside the ring by
> > the transitive property of trust :)
> >
> >
> > By keysigning, we make the ring stronger -- It is our DUTY and RIGHT
> > to sign keys ( trying to sound like a military recruiter here ). It's
> > a cool way to meet other nerds, too.
> >
> > [1]: http://www.gnupg.org/
> > [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > >
> > > John
> > >
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> > #define sizeof(x) rand()
> > :wq
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