#keysigningparty — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

@vlpatton The classic method is a key signing party. Get a bunch of people in the same room with legal photo identification and their fingerprints, and go around the room checking everyone else’s ID. Then, go home and sign everyone’s keys. Send the signed key to the key owner. Import signed keys and collect signatures!

Key servers sharing signatures haven’t been a thing since the attacks years ago. Any modern keyserver will strip the signatures, so you’ll have to distribute your key with signatures some other way (WKD, DNS, a file on your web site, etc.).

CAcert will do PGP key endorsements if you get enough assurances on their platform. Everyone with a signed key has had two forms of ID checked by two people. However, their infrastructure can only work on old-school RSA keys right now (they’re working on modernizing).

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