There will be a PGP key-signing held on Thursday, October 23, 2003 from 7:00pm to 7:30pm in the ACM room on the U of MN campus. Full details at: http://ry4an.org/keysigning/ What's a key-signing? A key-signing is a get-together with PGP users for the purpose of meeting other PGP users and signing each other's keys. This helps to extend the "web of trust" to a great degree. Also, it sometimes serves as a forum to discuss strong cryptography and related issues. Required Items? 1. Physical attendance 2. Positive picture ID 3. Your key ID, key type, HEX fingerprint, and key size 4. A pen/pencil or whatever you'd like to write with.... 5. NO computer Why should I use PGP? You should use PGP, if you need (or want) to protect your personal emails from being read by individuals or entities other than your intended recipient(s). PGP, when used correctly, can provide message privacy, message integrity, message authentication, and to some degree non-repudibility. OK. What are some good applications of PGP? Protection of email traffic of a sensitive nature, such as the coordination of response to ongoing security incidents, requests for DNS modifications, requests for networking changes and exchange of sensitive personal information like SSNs. At the very least, it would be useful to have all such messages signed, so the recipients could be sure that the notes were not forged. Please forward this note to anyone who may be interested in attending. -- Ry4an Brase - http://ry4an.org /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain.' X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email / \ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list