Keysigning - LRL UK '08

[Mez]

So, I've taken it upon myself to organise this years Keysigning at LRLUK '08.

For those of you who are interested, this keysigning will take part at some point during LRLUK '08 - don't know when yet - but I'm on the list of speakers (erk!)

Anyway, to make things a little bit easier this year, than previous years, I have created a nice little web application that allows me to collect your keys in one place - then, closer to the day, I will generate a list and circulate it to all the participants.

This list will contain the Userids and the fingerprints for the keys for all those involved.

At the keysigning party, each person on the list will be asked to confirm that the fingerprint and userids listed on this document is correct, by reading off their fingerprint from the list, and confirming it is correct. This generally saves the tedious exchanging of little bits of paper that get lost easily.

After this, a line will be formed, and a person from the end of the line will move down the line, exchanging IDs with each person as they go. The pair will verify each other's identities, and check each other off on their list. Then, as that person passes down the line, the next person will move down the line, etc etc. This means that everyone gets to check everyone elses id, in an organised manner (and the last person just has to stand there instead of going for a walk - SHOTGUN!)

Anyway, I'll post more details about how the keysigning process works as we go along.

On the day, you will be expected to bring with you the following

• A copy of your key's fingerprint
• A copy of the list of fingerprints and IDs (will be emailed to all participants before the event)
• Some form of government Identification - this MUST be a photo-id, and MUST contain your full name (as shown on your key)
• Yourself

Hopefully, this will be as painless a keysigning as possible.

If you wish to join in the Keysigning - please - paste your public key (ascii armored) into

http://keysign.sourceguru.org/

Closing for this is midnight on the 15th/16th July.

On the 16th July, I will generate the list and send it to each participant, along with further instructions.

Any questions, feel free to ask.

I hope to see you there!

[tonytiger]

There will be at least two CACert assurers there too, so if you're interested in that, bring along the requisite form and forms of ID.

http://cacert.org

Tony

[oojah]

I dunno, last year seemed to work pretty well on much the same principle.

Don't forget to bring extra copies of your key and fingerprint so that you can exchange details with people who haven't found this thread.

Cheers,

Roger

[Mez]

I dunno, last year seemed to work pretty well on much the same principle.

Don't forget to bring extra copies of your key and fingerprint so that you can exchange details with people who haven't found this thread.

Cheers,

Roger

Indeed it did - that's why I've done it this way - so for anyone who was there - its the same as last year, except you put your key in a webform rather than emailing it.

[Mez]

For those interested (5 have signed up so far) - does saturday or sunday lunchtime work better? And does anyone want to bring me food so I can stay and do this instead of having to rush off to grab food before I have to resume crew duties?

[Mez]

I've decided that, seeing as we have only a few participants so far, then It will take place on Sunday Lunch in the BoF point where it was last year.

I would have suggested the Evening party, till someone pointed me to this

[Mez]

Closing for this has changed to midday (BST) on the 16th July (have recently had a death in the family - the funeral's tomorrow - I won't want to stay up tomorrow night)

But please remember - this is your last chance to get your name down officially. After that - you can still participate, however, it'll be more convenient for everyone involved if you register beforehand.

Get those keys submitted

http://keysign.sourceguru.org

[davee]

I suspect that many people attending the key-signing will have been there before. Is there any way to supply information in the listings about who has *already* signed another person's key?

If this can be done simply, it might be a time-saver: if not, then I guess it might just make things more complicated.

[Mez]

It *is* possible, though - it makes my time doing key-trust paths a little more complicated. To be fair though, at the moment, there are 5 people signed up, including myself and yourself. There's only one person on there currently that wasn't there last year, so it should be a simple thing other than for those who join in last minute.