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Organizing Large Key-Signing Events?

Posted by Cliff on from the keeping-the-trust-chain-intact dept.

FooBarBaz asks: "I'll probably be organizing a quite large (read ~ 300+ people) PGP/GnuPG-Key-Signing-Event. Everyone suspiciously eyeing each others ID and reading fingerprints to everyone else is quite out of the question with such numbers. How would you organize something like that and still be able to select 'I have checked very carefully' when GPG asks?"

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  1. huh? by penguin_punk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What the hell is the article talking about?

    Someone explain this to me. I haven't used pgp in years and even then, it was just me and 3 buddies.

    Is the use of keys so widespread that people need to meet to identify themselves? If 300 people 'know' each other on-line, then why the hell do they need to meet to exchange keys? You'd think you could trust that anonymous person you've been chatting to for 3 years.

    Again, I may have blown this out of perspective, but what the hell if this talking about?

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