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Re: [LUG] OGG camp 2017

 

Thanks, Michael - that's pretty clear, on both points :-)
I'm pretty new to gpg so the explanation was very helpful. I really
liked the ogg analogy, too :-)

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 06:52:06PM +0100, Michael Dorrington via list wrote:
> On 06/04/17 08:30, Andy Wills wrote:
> > Thanks, Michael, that's an interesting insight. Free software is
> > certainly an interest of mine, but I guess what you're saying is that
> > its more a social event than major advocacy for free culture? Worth
> > knowing.
> 
> Let's put it this way.  If you were vegan and heard about a Vegan
> Unconference then you would get very excited.  The unconference would
> allow people do recipes in front of an audience.  Great, so you go to
> the unconference.  You look at the board and see a cake "talk", great.
> You attend this and then the "presenter" then starts adding butter to
> the cake mixture saying it is "better" this way.  But you are vegan and
> this meant to be a Vegan Unconference :(  Next you see on the board a
> "talk" on curry.  Sounds great so you attend.  The "presenter" of this
> "talk" gets out a meat cleaver and starts chopping up chicken to put in
> the curry.  You object: "This is meant to be a Vegan Unconference!" and
> the present says: "Well, there are vegetables in the curry."; that's
> what it is like.
> 
> > PS your key ID AAF8E3EF seems to have expired a while back? 
> 
> You need to refresh my key, I updated the expiry date a while ago and
> pushed it up.
> 
> Note, make sure  you use the longer format to look up:
> 
> 0xD7726C3EAAF8E3EF
> 
> If you look up using the short format then you'll find the key that was
> generated to clash with the short format.  The "clasher" even went so
> far as to sign the key with other clashing keys.  This was done to many
> many keys.  They've been so kind as to revoke them now.
> 
> Short:
> 
> http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xAAF8E3EF&op=vindex&fingerprint=on
> 
> Long:
> 
> http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xD7726C3EAAF8E3EF&op=vindex&fingerprint=on
> 
> M.
> 
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