[ale] PGP/GPG Keysigning party! ALE Central November 19th.

[Scott Denlinger]

I think there are two parts to your question.

The first part is why someone would want to use PGP/GPG, and you've stated the
obvious reason in the context of the ALE list. People may have other reasons,
too, and I personally highly doubt that any of them are for nefarious ends. At
least, that's how I prefer to go through life thinking about people.

The second part, about why someone would want to participate in a key signing
party, is well-answered by the Wikipedia entries for "key signing party" and
"web of trust"

Scott Denlinger


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:41:25AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > Aaron approached me a couple of days about about running a PGP/GPG key
> > signing party for the November ALE meeting.  Looking back, it looks like
> > the last one was 6-1/2 years ago!  Wow, time flies...  Ok...  So be it.
> >   
> I for one would like to know exactly what this activity is good for.  I 
> understand that one of the uses of these keys is to be sure an email is 
> from who you think it is.  Exactly what activities are you guys involved 
> in that require that level of security?  Obviously you are doing 
> something other than sending responses to the various questions/issue on 
> this list. 
> 
> I'm not criticizing, just very puzzled 'cause I have no real idea of a 
> practical use for this level of security.
> 
> Thanks for the enlightenment.
> 
> Jim.

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