[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] Tonight: Of Trust, Keys, and Cryptography - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting 2009-11-05

[Bill McGonigle]

[ please bring your laptop, if possible, and a government-issued ID ]
[ please RSVP before 3PM Thursday so an appropriate number of forms
  can be printed ]

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              Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
                       http://dlslug.org/
              a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held:

                Thursday, November 5th, 7-9PM
at:            Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041

               All are welcome, free of charge.

                           Agenda

5:30  Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's.  RSVP and bring cash.

7:00  Sign-in, networking

7:15  Introductory remarks

7:20  Public Keys and Webs of Trust in 15 Minutes or Less
        presented by Bill McGonigle

      What is encryption, how does public key cryptography
      work, and what is a Web of Trust?  What are PGP and x.509?
      What is CACert, and how can I get free 'SSL' certificates?
      Just enough of a glancing blow at these topics will be
      presented for a the rest of the evening to make some sense.

7:35  Q&A

7:45  Keysigning Party

      Attendees will have a chance to get their ID's verified by
      CACert trusted assurers, and then practice signing each
      others' certificates to establish a network of trust for
      the NH/VT region.  This is largely a peer-to-peer activity
      but will be loosely coordinated to keep things moving
      along.

      Pre-register for an account at CACert to save time:
        https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1
      You can save yourself time by printing out pre-filled
      forms right from the website.

      Please bring a laptop if you can and a government-issued
      photo ID for verification - more than one kind of ID is
      preferred.

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-- 
Bill McGonigle, Owner
BFC Computing, LLC
http://bfccomputing.com/
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Email, IM, VOIP: bill at bfccomputing.com
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