[lug] Public Key Exchanges

[Nate Duehr]

I know I missed the meeting (was in Vegas... fun!) but is there any
particular benefit to setting up a BLUG keyserver over using one of the
widely-known key servers (like the one in my sig)?

It seems more software would be pre-"aimed" at the pgp.net servers and
would suffice for building a sufficient "web of trust" if we all just
did a big keysigning party and get everyone to properly authenticate
each other's keys and re-upload them to the well-known servers?

Just wondering why someone needs to go through all the extra work of
building a keyserver... someone enlighten me!

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:24:45PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> <RANT>Why is your mailer setting up a header of:
> Mail-Followup-To: marvin,
>         Boulder Linux User's Group <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> </RANT>
> 
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:24:10AM -0700, Michael J. Pedersen wrote:
> >Well, with the success of last night's meeting, I'd like to start working out
> >how we can do some public key exchanges with the various members of our group,
> >and even set up our own keyserver.
> 
> I think you're all set up to set one up on the community.tummy.com box.
> Let me know off-list if you need anything for it.  Oh wait, you said
> you wouldn't use a RedHat 7 box.  ;-)
> 
> Sean
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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.