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

[Tim Watts]

Does the community of key servers replicate/cooperate amongst themselves? In 
other words, can I go to any key server or do I have to go to the one where 
the person posted it? It's looking like the latter case since I'm unable to 
pull Jeremy's key.


On Tuesday 27 October 2009 10:10:36 pm Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 21:38 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> > 	Sounds great I would definitely be interested in a key signing as it's
> > been awhile since I've been able to attend any so my keys position in
> > the WoT has dropped over the past couple years.
> >
> > 	I would suggest however that everyone please make sure the key they are
> > wanting signed is in the public key servers. As per my own signing
> > policy if I can't retrieve a key from a public key server it doesn't get
> > signed. Then again I have a lot more stringent policy on signing keys
> > than most, including a published key policy which is embedded with my
> > signature.
>
> This is probably a good idea since there's really no reason to NOT have
> your key on a public key server.  The keyring I'm accumulating will
> simply be for convenience sake so someone can import the entire ring
> without having to specify each key on a --recv-keys plus I can print out
> sheets of key fingerprints for the meeting making it easier (and FASTER)
> for everyone.  But you still need to sign each key.  I think Bob Toxin
> had some scripts for that, too.  Still...  To each his own.  We have our
> own policies and procedures and that's part and parcel!
>
> Regards,
> Mike

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