LUGs and the Web of Trust.

[Randy Rathbun]

I found a great HOWTO on getting GPG to run with pine, if anyone is
interested...

http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/faqs/unix/mail/pine/gpg/

I am using it right now and it looks like it may actually work (I never
was able to get gpg4pine to run for some reason). 

Randy Rathbun
randy at rrr.2y.net
http://rrr.2y.net/

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Monty J. Harder wrote:

>   Contact your local Linux Users Group, and have a knowledgable person
> instruct members in public-key cryptography and run a public key
> cross-signing session regularly at their meetings. Every Linux or Open
> Source convention, where developers are likely to get together, should
> host some form of public-key certification, and should announce that well
> in advance so that developers bring the proper materials to the show.
> Conventions should also run tutorials on how to use GNU Privacy Guard and
> how to properly handle and sign cryptographic keys. Through key-signings,
> developers can join the web of trust, which is a method of identifying
> people whom you haven't met by checking their public keys for
> cryptographic signatures made by people you have met. Then, we'll have a
> way to identify our developers.