At 04:40 PM 1/23/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

Weld Pond writes:

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This begs the question, "How would you conduct an efficient key signing given what you have learned?" I am in the process of organizing one and would like to get input as to the best way that this should take place.

The IETF key signing parties are the largest in existance -- about 100 people exchange signatures.

The way you handle it is this:

{key signing stuff deleted for space] That was the basic format we used. The only difference was that the keys were collected before hand and distributed on disk. The biggest problems were due to unfamiliarity was to what to bring and procedure from an experience point of view. (Lack of key fingerprints were a problem.) The key signing rules were published, but many people attending did not read them. (They were part of an update announcement. Many people read the top part, saw nothing had changed and skipped the rest of it...) Now that we have done it once, it will be alot easier the next time. Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Is the operating system half NT or half full?"