[SGVLUG] GPG fingerprints -- where to advertise them

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

This item caught my attention on the kmail list -- I love Ingo Klöcker's response regarding T-shirts...

[Ingo is the Kmail maintainer, BTW]

On Monday 05 January 2009, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> So I had a closer look at GPG.

Excellent idea!


> Gettign there.
> Now - where's a good place to put my fingerprint?
> eMail signature? Business Card? Letterbox? T-Shirt?

All of the above. ;-)

More serious:
email signature - Doesn't make much sense, if you sign all your messages 
because the fingerprint is implicitely included in the signature. More 
precisely, the long key ID, i.e. the last 8 bytes of the fingerprint, 
are included, but that's sufficient.

business card - This makes sense.

letterbox - Probably not.

T-shirt - This is a cool idea if you go to a fair which is attended by 
other people using OpenPGP since those people might ask you to sign 
their key in exchange for signing your key. Of course, you'd only do 
this after thoroughly verifying the identity of this person. Other 
people might ask you what the number means and then you can start a 
nice discussion about privacy, encryption, Vorratsdatenspeicherung, 
etc., with them.