I use my personal S/MIME certificate, issued by Thawte, with all my email correspondence. If you wish to send me encrypted email, you must download this beforehand.
I also have a CAcert issued S/MIME certificate, the public key of which can be obtained on request. I use the Thawte certificate by default however.
I am currently able to offer 10 points to those living in the Munich area, or able to get to Germering or Puchheim on the west of the city.
I am able to offer 15 points to those I assure as part of CAcert's Web of Trust programme. Same geographic restrictions as for Thawte notarisation.
Thirdly, I am available to sign PGP keys. My key is in the strong set.
pub 1024D/6DC48D95 2005-12-01
Key fingerprint = 970A 4C6D A94D A4CC D1F7 9928 0511 C4A0 6DC4 8D95
uid Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
uid Nicholas Shanks <nickshanks@gmail.com>
sub 2048g/BE6CADEC 2005-12-01
My policy for signing keys is that I must have met you face-to-face, seen at least two photo IDs, and that you assert that the fingerprint I have for your key is correct. I will then corrispond with you using this key and you must decrypt and reply before I will sign that uid. I will only sign uids if I can confirm the email address is valid. I will sign photo uids and name only uids on the basis of the meeting alone.
—Nicholas Shanks, last updated 27 April 2008.