Technical Level: Intermediate Speaker: Seth Hardy Key and Identity Management With PGP There are many introductory tutorials out there on PGP (and its opensource equivalents), but few seem to touch on one of the most importantaspects of it, why many people choose to use it: key and identitymanagement. It's been said that key management is the hardest (andworst) part of cryptography; trust is hard to manage because it's bothvery important and completely intangible. There's a reason why somecompanies can make so much money off of managing a PKI (public keyinfrastructure) for you. This talk will start by covering the concepts of public keycryptography, and from there move into the realm of key and identitymanagement in PGP. First, we'll look at the advantages and disadvantagesof the dece...