Meeting

I am willing to sign keys for people I meet in person, for example at a conference or a LUG/FSUG meeting, in reasonable circustances (not in a hurry, in a calm place, etc.).

The owner of the key should bring an hardcopy of the output of the command:

gpg --fingerprint $KEY_ID

or an equivalent listing of the same informations.

If the key is not available on public servers, the piece of paper should include an alternative address where I can easily retrieve the public key to sign.

I reserve the right not to sign a key; reasons may include, but are not limited to, insufficient identification or problems retrieving the key.

Signature Levels

I'm no longer using signature levels, since they don't seem to add much value.

Key trasport

After I've signed the UIDs, I will send the signed and possibly encrypted key back to each email address, as a light form of address ownership check; I will not upload the key to any keyserver.

Subsequent keys

If I have signed your key and you create a new one (e.g. because the old one is set to expire in the near future or you are migrating to a new format) I am willing to sign the new key without meeting in person as long as the following conditions are met.

• The old key is not yet expired nor revoked when you send me the request (of course).
• You send me an email signed with the old key and including the informations on the new key as needed for a new signature (fingerprint, UID you want to have signed, informations for key retrieval).

I will then sign the UIDs I had already signed on the old key; other UIDs may be signed or not at my discretion.

Pseudonym keys

I will only sign pseudonym identities on keys if I've known the owner of the key under that pseudonym for more than a year.

Photo uid

I won't generally sign photo UIDs because they are hard to properly verify.

Reciprocity

Reciprocity is appreciated, but not required: if we meet so that I can sign your key I expect that you look at my ID and fingerprint; if then you have a reason not to sign it I understand it, but appreciate if, situation permitting, you explain what the issues are, so that I can fix them for the future.