[SGVLUG] Who wants to be the President... (was Proof of LUGmembership])

[Dustin Laurence]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:15:56PM -0800, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:

> I am not sure but I think that CACert assures a person not a loose
> group of Linux people.

Hmm, maybe.

> But if we generated a GPG key public/private key pair and put the
> public key on the website and the signed people's keys you could then
> check against the publicly available key.

I was going after something else.  CACert signs SSL keys, don't they?
The idea was that we could run https on our website or any portion of it
and have the certificate signed by CACert.  Admittedly this is most
useful if they get their certificate into the major browsers' default
certificate list.

> But it would require a someone to sign the keys on request, with SGVLUG's key.

Thus "keymaster." :-)

Dustin
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