If you need some extra notarisation points for your Thawte Web of Trust and/or CAcert Web of Trust identity, I can help you.If you need some extra notarisation points for your Thawte Web of Trust and/or CAcert Web of Trust identity, I can help you.
I live in the East Coast Bays in Auckland's North Shore, and thus prefer to meet somewhere on my side of the Bridge. Please email me for more details.
I can provide up to 35 points. I will neither request nor accept payment. (And I can take pride in knowing that I'm the first free Thawte notary in New Zealand. :-))
You will need copies of at least a form of ‘trusted photographic identification’, which I will keep, as well as their corresponding originals, which I will look at.
Passports and driving licences are obvious candidates. Other forms of officially issued identification should do, but please contact me first. For Thawte notarisations, at least one form of identification has to show the National Identity Number that you provided to Thawte when you first registered.
You might want to read over the notarisation form (Thawte, CAcert) which may give you some ideas about what you should bring along.
Point allocation is, to my knowledge, at the discretion of individual notaries; however, Aaron Whitehouse and I have agreed on a common point schedule, so that we allocate points consistently. If you're a notary, feel free to adopt this if you wish.
If you have a PGP/GnuPG public key you'd like me to sign, you can write out its fingerprint and give it to me (please also include your key ID if it's a version 3 key).
My key is available in my keys collection. Some of my keys (1999, 2001 master) are signed by one of the Thawte Personal Freemail keys. Of course, I'll bring my key fingerprint along too, if you'd like to verify my key.
Friends who have listed free Thawte notary service:
You can also contact other Auckland notaries.
I currently run a mailing list that some Web of Trust notaries in Auckland use to coordinate notarisation meetings, where several notaries meet up and notarise several candidates. This saves both our time and the candidates', and is also a great way to meet people.
If you wish to subscribe, send an empty message to notaries-subscribe@lists.org.nz. Archives are available at http://lists.org.nz/notaries/.
At the moment, because of spam issues, all messages to the list are moderated. My intention in future is for posters to register their PGP/GnuPG keys with the list maintainer, and for the mailing list software to deliver messages signed by recognised keys (i.e., registered as above, or signed by Thawte) without going through moderation.
My policy with regard to moderation is: if a message is related to organising notarisation meetings, or networking with other notaries, then the message will go through as received by the list server (i.e., unedited). Within 24 hours of posting, I will either forward the message to the list, or (if non-spam) reject it stating why.
Update: I currently don't have an easy means to access the messages sent to the list for moderation, so your messages will take a while to get approved. I apologise for this, and will update this page once the situation is rectified.