At various TriLUG meetings, some people like to verify each other's identities and key fingerprints. In order to verify fingerprints collected at meetings, and to encourage GnuPG/PGP use throughout the LUG, TriLUG maintains a keyring of our member's public keys. It can be found here. You can download and import this keyring to your GnuPG keyring with this command:
lynx -source http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc | gpg --import
Alternatively, you can download the keyring manually and import it using this command:
gpg --import trilug.asc
When you go to a keysigning, you need to bring two things:
You can get your key information using this command:
gpg --fingerprint [key id or email address]
where [key id] is the last eight hexidecimal digits of the key's fingerprint.
Note that if you sign a key, please send it to a keyserver, if the key owner has said that's ok, otherwise, please send the key back to the owner and let them upload it to a keyserver. In GnuPG, you can send it to a keyserver with this command:
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-key [key id]
To export the key and send it to the key owner, use this command:
gpg -a --export [key id] > descriptive_name.gpg.asc
If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at the address at the bottom of the page.
Tanner Lovelace