AfNOG 2006 PGP Key Signing
There will be a PGP key signing party held in JAMBO 1 after
lunch (but before the afternoon classes) on Friday 12 May.
PGP is a way to encrypt data and e-mail, so that it cannot be
understood by other people. You can also use PGP to sign data
and e-mail, so that people who receive it can be sure it really
came from you, and that it hasn't been modified by someone else.
There are no tutorials or workshops scheduled on PGP this
year. If you don't know much about PGP, and particularly if you
have not already generated a PGP key, you may want to find an
instructor before Friday and ask them to help you.
Before Friday morning, you should do the following:
- Install some PGP software, if you don't
already have some. Some reasonable choices are GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG,
or GPG, free) and PGP
(which is not free). On FreeBSD, you can find GnuPG in
the Ports system as security/gnupg.
- Generate a PGP key pair, if you have not
already done so. This
tutorial (aussi en français)
might help.
- Extract the public key. With GnuPG, you can
do this using gpg -a --export <your email address>.
- Add your public key to the AfNOG 2006 keyring.
The keyring
can be found here. Just export your public key as ASCII,
and paste it into the form.
- Generate your public key's fingerprint, and write it
down. With GPG, the way you see your key's fingerprint
is to type gpg --fingerprint <your email address>.
On Friday, after lunch, you should do the following:
- Go to JAMBO 1 and bring the piece of paper with
your key fingerprint.
- Make sure you bring some photo I.D., like a passport
or a driver's licence. This is to let people verify that you really
are who you say you are, and that you are not pretending to be
someone else.
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