Day 4: Water, lots of...
Saturday morning started promising. Again I was awake at 7:30, which made me one of the first ones being active on the camp site. I later on had a nice chat with some fellow geek who told me that breakfast was available until 15:00.
Okay, I was having my lunch around this time.
Anyway, friday was the day the keysigning party took place. We met at the rocket. I brought my computer which turned out to be wrong. Obviously I just should've printed out the fingerprint of my key, including my details (Name, comment, email adress). Thanks to one of my french neighbour we fixed this pretty fast. And I wasn't the only one being not prepared, though.
The keysigning party is about establing a web of trust. You can create a PGP key with any name, so people can't know for sure that the person behind the key is really the person he or she claims to be.
Keysigning parties deal with this issue: People meet at one location, exchange their fingerprints and look at each others passport - or other ID cards. So you know that the person you just met really exists. To check the eMail adress you sign his or her key, and send it to the given email adress. The signed key can then be uploaded to any keyserver by its owner. This is how email addresses are verified.
During the keysigning party it started to rain. We entered the Art & Beauty hangar, and I met with some people cacert. They where around to assure people, which is the same like keysigning, just for website certificates.
At some point I noticed that I had an umbrella in my cargo trouser. Pressing the laptop hard to my chest I made it to our tent. Things looked different there: All the hardware had been shutdown, the server was standing on a chair. Bottles of water where acting as some kind of flood barrier. Our site was a mess.
As it stopped raining we learned that it hadn't hit us as hard as it had others: Our neighbours behind our tents went home, their site had been drowned in water. There was a small lake behind our tents, people started to play soccer there. It's kind of a miracle why the mood was still good.
Because of the bad weather I missed all the lectures. And because all my people wanted to attend Tits and bits I staid on watch.
Okay, I was having my lunch around this time.
Anyway, friday was the day the keysigning party took place. We met at the rocket. I brought my computer which turned out to be wrong. Obviously I just should've printed out the fingerprint of my key, including my details (Name, comment, email adress). Thanks to one of my french neighbour we fixed this pretty fast. And I wasn't the only one being not prepared, though.
The keysigning party is about establing a web of trust. You can create a PGP key with any name, so people can't know for sure that the person behind the key is really the person he or she claims to be.
Keysigning parties deal with this issue: People meet at one location, exchange their fingerprints and look at each others passport - or other ID cards. So you know that the person you just met really exists. To check the eMail adress you sign his or her key, and send it to the given email adress. The signed key can then be uploaded to any keyserver by its owner. This is how email addresses are verified.
During the keysigning party it started to rain. We entered the Art & Beauty hangar, and I met with some people cacert. They where around to assure people, which is the same like keysigning, just for website certificates.
At some point I noticed that I had an umbrella in my cargo trouser. Pressing the laptop hard to my chest I made it to our tent. Things looked different there: All the hardware had been shutdown, the server was standing on a chair. Bottles of water where acting as some kind of flood barrier. Our site was a mess.
As it stopped raining we learned that it hadn't hit us as hard as it had others: Our neighbours behind our tents went home, their site had been drowned in water. There was a small lake behind our tents, people started to play soccer there. It's kind of a miracle why the mood was still good.
Because of the bad weather I missed all the lectures. And because all my people wanted to attend Tits and bits I staid on watch.
cptsalek - 17. Aug, 13:55