Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again

I've been asked a few questions off-list that are probably worth
sharing with the group.  As a reminder, signup instructions are at
http://nexttime.com/mbrodeur/PGP-Mar-2007/

Q.  What is the schedule for the evening, and how long will the
keysigning take?

A.  I can't be sure until I have an idea of how many participants
there will be.  The order will be demos, presentation, signing.  If
the check sheet is fairly short (10 actual humans or less) we'll start
the signing at ~20:30 and be done by 21:00.  If it looks like a big
group I'll skip all but the most basic parts of the presentation and
start the signing at 20:00.  That should leave time for Q&A for anyone
who wants to stick around.

Q.  I don't have keys yet, or I'm not used to working with them, and I
still want to participate.

A.  See http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN26 for a good guide
to creating a new keypair.  Once you have a key and know its ID
(KeyID), you can use the following commands to satisfy steps 2 and 3
in the instructions at my site:

# Submit key to keyserver
$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-key [KeyID]

# Send key details to mbrodeur
$ gpg --fingerprint [KeyID]

Copy and paste the output into an email to me with the subject "PGP Key
for MerriLUG".  You could of course do:
$ gpg --fingerprint [KeyID] | mail -s "PGP Key for MerriLUG" mbrodeur <at> nexttime.com

If you already have a nice easy GUI tool and know how to use it then
you can ignore these instructions.  If you want a nice easy GUI tool,
or want to know how to use the one you already have, then just show up
at the meeting.  I'll demo a few of the more common GPG tools,
including one or two for Windows.

-- 
Matt Brodeur                                                     RHCE
MBrodeur@...                         http://www.nexttime.com
PGP ID: 2CFE18A3 / 9EBA 7F1E 42D1 7A43 5884  560C 73CF D615 2CFE 18A3
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. 