88 Chapter 5
Keysigning Parties
The fastest way to accumulate signatures on your public key
is to attend a keysigning party, which is a gathering of people
for the specific purpose of verifying each other’s identities and
signing OpenPGP public keys. You don’t have to know these
people to have them sign your key, but you never know who
knows who and what friends and acquaintances you might
have in common. You might be asked to provide your keyid,
fingerprint, and UID to the host ahead of time, or to bring
several copies of it with you. (I recommend printing your UID
and fingerprint multiple times on a sheet of paper and cutting
the paper into multiple cards or strips so that you can distrib-
ute this information yourself, no matter what problems ...