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

[Brian MacLeod]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

> Hello Jim,
>
> Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 10:41:25 AM, you wrote:
>
> > 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.
>


At my current job, we use GPG to create password keystores so that only
people who are authorized to work on a set of machines can ever get that
password, plus, with the password histories also encrypted that way, no one
gets access to the old passwords either (ie: I start on this date, and any
passwords generated/changed since then I can see, otherwise I'm SOL).

We don't currently use it for emails, though, that would be trivial at this
point.

I'm also looking to use it as part of a dead man's switch system I am
creating for myself to alert those around me who are reliant on me if I
suddenly disappear, as well as those special few people who might need to
have access to my accounts should unfortunate things happen to me.

Paranoia is a beach.  Like Normandy in 1944.


Brian
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