<div dir="ltr"><div>Can I sign you up for a talk in September about HOWTO Migrate From PGP/GnuPG? Along with the traditional Crypto News Update? <br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:58 PM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Kurt</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://ttn.mit.edu/PGPcopter.htm" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ttn.mit.edu/PGPcopter.htm</a></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you Kurt. 😃<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Do you know of any secure procedures we could employ to replace our traditional BLU keysigning parties during the pandemic? I imagine it's probably not feasible at all, and we should just skip it this year, but I figure if anyone knew of a way to do it properly under present conditions, you would have heard of it. </div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Holding up ID cards to a webcam would have lower confidence / weaker epistemology than the traditional in-person circular firing squad in which we each handle each others' ids, but wouldn't be impossible. Indeed a jitsi session could be set on a recurring schedule more often than annually and needn't be restricted to locals, but then one should ask what introductions one wants to require to sign a stranger's key remotely! (Answer: a lot, lest the web of trust become meaningless. )</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However</div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Since my sermon last year was on the topic that PGP keys are obsolescent golden hammers in search of screws to pound, I would be happy to skip the signing this year and instead expand on the what to use instead of PGP/GPG in each use case. </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6<br><br></div></div>