The local Triangle Linux Users Group, of which I am a member, had a keysigning party last night after our meeting. I traded paper with dozens of members in an effort to build a GPG web of trust.
Even with my cryptography background, I feel utterly clueless as to all the ways GPG and PGP can be used. Keyservers, keysigning, and webs-of-trust are all foreign to me. Perhaps that’s why I had difficulty explaining it to Kelly last night.
I think we’re doing something right, though, since our efforts have placed us at the top of the list at Biglumber.com, one website that keeps up with this sort of thing. How to take advantage of this fact is anyone’s guess. I’m still clueless. 🙂
By the way, an effort to find Doc Searl’s GPG key in Google produced interesting results. Our of 318 pages returned, my humble website is result number two. Google works in mysterious ways.