(Get your PGP key signed! Sign up at http://www.biglumber.com/ now and BeFound(TM).)

PGP keysignings help extend the Web of Trust (WoT). The GNU Privacy Handbook sections on managing and building a personal WoT are required reading. With these concepts in mind, here are some group keysigning methods:

• http://www.herrons.com/kb2nsx/keysign.html
• http://www.debian.org/events/keysigning (multiple translations available)
• http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html (quite detailed, includes sample announcements, one translation available)
• http://sion.quickie.net/keysigning.txt (offers speedup of fingerprint verification step)
• http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html (original message) (requires secret sharing and email address verification)
• http://www.at.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/faq-06.html (dated)

• http://nylug.org/keys/
• http://www.phillylinux.org/keys/participate.html
• http://www.codecon.org/pgp.html
• http://www.anize.org/dfc/dc/ (has party-table.pl example)
• ./blacksburg/ (has ring-a-party example)

and some programs to help:

• http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnupg/tools/ring-a-party (also in /tools in the GPG distributions) (/bin/sh + [g]awk, emits text)
• http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/pgp_party/party-table.pl (Perl, emits HTML)

To find other people for keysignings, use these resources:

• http://www.biglumber.com/ (browsable database)
• http://lists.alt.org/pipermail/keysignings/ (mailing list)
• http://nm.debian.org/gpg.php (two webpages, sorted by country then last name...)

After each keysigning, be sure to post the keys and signatures to a keyserver.

Finally, to check the Web of Trust, try these:

• http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/ (newer keyanalyze reports)
• http://www.dtype.org/keyanalyze/ (monthly report)
• http://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html (web-based signature path traces, also use ./code/#ka or the links from biglumber.com to access pathfinder on kjsl.com)
• http://www.chaosreigns.com/code/sigtrace/ (signature path traces via a Perl program)
• http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/pgpstat/ (old, no longer updated)

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  $Date: 2004/01/06 22:41:37 $