[ale] GPG Key Party Followup

Tim Watts timtw at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 20 21:08:53 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 20:21 -0500, Brandon Wood wrote:
> I tried to same for the keyserver.ubuntu.com but it timed out. I need
> to verify that url...
> 
I think the server got hosed this afternoon (not confirmed). I'm getting
the same timeouts and wget returns the default apache server test page
where earlier it returned the search page. Not good...


> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:30 AM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>         Thanks to all the participants at the ALE
>         GPG Key Signing Party!  Don't forget to hit
>         the <http://keyserver.ubuntu.com> site soon
>         (aka this weekend) and sign the keys on your
>         lists.
>         
>         Also, huge thanks to Charles and Jeremy for
>         presenting some great info and background.
>         
>         And if you had to miss the party this time,
>         rest assured that we will be revisiting this
>         topic again a few months down the road with
>         a little more lengthy and in depth
>         presentation.
>         
>         In the meanwhile there's nothing stopping
>         anyone from making and using GPG keys outside
>         of the meetings and asking fellow ALE'ers to
>         sign them at ALE events  (like the ALE Ubuntu
>         Install Fest this Saturday).
>         
>         We'll leave the general instructions posted
>         for a while.  Only major change is that you
>         would want to post your public keys directly
>         with a public keyserver (like the one linked
>         above) instead of sending them to the
>         @wittsend.com address.
>         
>         Charles' excellent step by step directions for
>         generating and storing keys is here:
>         
>         <http://ale.org/static_pages/gpgstepbystep.html
>         
>         ... and links to other info and such at ...
>         <http://www.gnupg.org>
>         
>         peace
>         aaron
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
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