[BLU/Officers] PGP/GnuPG keysignings and COVID-19

[John Abreau]

Can I sign you up for a talk in September about HOWTO Migrate From
PGP/GnuPG? Along with the traditional Crypto News Update?


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:58 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Kurt
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>> http://ttn.mit.edu/PGPcopter.htm
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> Thank you Kurt.  😃
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> Do you know of any secure procedures we could employ to replace our
>>> traditional BLU keysigning parties during the pandemic? I imagine it's
>>> probably not feasible at all, and we should just skip it this year, but I
>>> figure if anyone knew of a way to do it properly under present conditions,
>>> you would have heard of it.
>>>
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> Holding up ID cards to a webcam would have lower confidence / weaker
> epistemology than the traditional in-person circular firing squad in which
> we each handle each others' ids, but wouldn't be impossible. Indeed a jitsi
> session could be set on a recurring schedule more often than annually and
> needn't be restricted to locals,  but then one should ask what
> introductions one wants to require to sign a stranger's key remotely!
> (Answer: a lot, lest the web of trust become meaningless. )
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> However
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> Since my sermon last year was on the topic that PGP keys are obsolescent
> golden hammers in search of screws to pound,  I would be happy to skip the
> signing this year and instead expand on the what to use instead of PGP/GPG
> in each use case.
>


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