Keysigning meeting info -- TUM physics department 2002/12/16

A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a great degree. Key signing is act of digitally signing a public key. You can digitally sign your own public key, or another entity's public key. Key signing is done to verify that a given public key really does belong to the entity that appears to own the key. In a sense, key signatures validate public keys.

The Meeting was held in the foyer of the Physics Department (Technische Universität München) on Monday 16th of December, 13:15. Meeting point was right between the Lecture Halls in the middle of the foyer.

Signing keys - Signed keys

The public keyring (MD5 Checksum) available here (MD5 Checksum) contains the public PGP keys of everybody who was present at the meeting.

If you submit the keys you signed after the meeting to me via mail, I will append them to this keyring. Such this keyring might also contain your key(s) with new signatures done by other participants. Currently, it contains all new signatures due to the meeting. Should you think a particular signature should be there but isn't, just drop me a mail. Be careful: Signing Photo IDs is only possible with GnuPG 1.0.7 or newer, or with PGP for Windows 7 or newer. Signing them with older versions results in BAD signatures!

Past meeting

A previous meeting took place at Augustiner Biergarten, 2002/06/21 15:00 MEST.

Next meeting(s)?

The yet unexplored reigns of computer scientists, mechanical engineers and Max Planckians remains to be visited by a key signing party. If I am motivated enough (and after the last meeting, this might well be the case), the next meeting might take place in the first weeks of 2003, perhaps in the FMI building on the Garching Campus. Stay tuned.

What to Bring

Government-issued photo ID (driver's license, state ID or passport)
A printout of the key fingerprints file - this is the final version
A pen or something else to write with

During the meeting

People read out loud their key ID, their fingerprint and show their passport
With the printout of the key fingerprints file, you should check that the respective key ID and fingerprint match the user and you saw her/his ID card or passport and mark this key accordingly.

How to proceed after the meeting:

Fetch the public keys of all people who attended the meeting from here (MD5 Checksum).
For each of the keys, check whether the key ID and the fingerprint given matches the information you collected during the meeting and that you have seen the owner's passport.
If so, please sign the respective key/User IDs and mail the signed key to its owner.

External link: GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO

This document also explains how to generate and sign keys...

Downloads

List of Key IDs and fingerprints of all people interested. Please: print the list of public keys and bring it with you!
For your convenience, you may get a keyring with all corresponding public PGP keys (which you may sign after the meeting if they match the fingerprints given by their owners) here (MD5 Checksum).

What not to bring to the meeting

Copies of your secret key
Computers

Send Questions, Comments and Feedback to Robert Wagner, rwagner@ph.tum.de