Web of trust in Southwest Ohio, USA

[Jason Barnett]

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 2:55 pm, Jason Barnett wrote:
> 
>>- Can someone give me some advice on how to get started building my "web
>>of trust?"
> 
> 
> 1. Advertise that you use GnuPG by signing emails, putting your key in ASCII 
> armour on your webpage, linking to that page in your email sig, . . .
> 2. Get yourself onto biglumber (ref in my sig) to help people in your area to 
> find you.

Someone else emailed me off list and I'm signing up for that right now.

> 3. Join local user groups, especially (GNU/)Linux User Groups (GLUG or LUG).
> 4. Start with your own friends and contacts.

No one in my family uses it (I'm actually trying to convince my sister 
to start), but I'll give my friends a try.

> 
> 
>>- Is there a site where I can search *all* of the archives at once?  I
>>found http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/?1106184443 but I can
>>only search within a one month time frame (and I hate to post questions
>>that have already been answered).
> 
> 
> The practical reason for that is that multi-month searches require lots of 
> server time and unless you've got the power of Google, the scripts time out.
> 
> Google will search particular sites - check the advanced search options.

Thanks for the tip!  I've done this before for other sites, but I just 
didn't think of it this time around.

> 
> 
>>- I realize that not every person I email is going to use GPG / PGP so
>>I'd like to at least sign every email that I send.  What exactly is
>>supposed to be in my signature?  Is it the encrypted version of the
>>email I am sending?
> 
> 
> It's a checksum of the content of the email. It is calculated from your key 
> and the email text and each signature is unique. Your email client will do 
> the calculations for you. Your standard email sig (the plain text bit) should 
> just mention your keyid or a webpage that holds a copy of your key plus 
> sundry other contact details. You don't write a digital / GnuPG signature 
> yourself.
> 
> You're using Thunderbird so you'll need the Enigmail plugin to sign using 
> GnuPG. It's very simple to configure.
> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

I downloaded / installed it.  I'll be setting that up shortly.

> 
> It will allow you to sign all outgoing messages or just the ones you select.
> 
> 
>>Thanks in advance for whatever help you can send my way.  And if any of
>>you are PHP developers feel free to drop me a line some time.  :)
> 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/
> 
> Atom has also written a GnuPG encryption routine for PHP:
> http://business-php.com/opensource/gpg_encrypt/
> 
> 

Many, many good tips here.  Thank you!

> 
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