re: [local] Report on Portland Cpunks meeting

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 04:26 PM 1/23/96 -0800, Alan Olsen wrote:

>>This begs the question, "How would you conduct an efficient key signing 
>>given what you have learned?" I am in the process of organizing one and 
>>would like to get input as to the best way that this should take place.  
>>Should people bring key fingerprints and public keys on floppy?  Would it 
>>be nice to be online and grab public keys off of a key server? How would 
>>you conduct a nym signing?
>
>The things that I learned was that instructions should be sent to the
>participants well in advance.  
>
>Key fingerprints should be brought on paper becuase it is not always assured
>of having a computer there to read the disk. (We had a lap top that was
>refusing to read disks effectivly.  We had to use on of the Habit's
>computers.) 

...which, of course, had been infected the night before by a black-bag job 
by some NSA operatives with a "fiddle with PGP and make the key signatures 
come out wrong" virus...  <G!>

Paranoia strikes deep...