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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

At 11:19 AM 8/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> in case anyone didn't get it from Lisa's notice, GPG Encryption is the 
> topic of
> NC Sys Admins tonite. there will be a key signing. why duplicate when you can
> streamline?

        For starters, I'm not a Sys Admin.  I don't have GPG or PGP 
installed yet, so key-signing this evening may be a bit premature.  And 
perhaps I'm not geek enough, but I wanted to learn a bit more about it 
before taking the task on. Besides, I'm washing my hair tonight.

        While there may be significant overlap between NC*SA and INW, it 
might be worthwhile for us to have a little crypto chat and 
installfest.  Seems like today's discussion is a good start.

        F'rinstance, before Lisa's announcement and the discussion today, 
I was unaware of GPG (a/k/a GNU Privacy Guard).  And I'm pleased to see 
that it runs on various OS in addition to Unix.  Anyone have experience 
running it Windows?

http://www.gnupg.org/

I've also found out about OpenPGP, which is apparently an open-source 
encryption protocol rather than a specific application.

http://www.openpgp.org/

Which led me in turn to Phil Zimmerman's site,

http://philzimmermann.com/findpgp.shtml

and to the International PGP site,

http://www.pgpi.org/

which seems to be a little out-of-date.  Like, does any PGP-variant plug 
into the current version of Eudora?

        There's a bunch of info out there, but I'd still be interested in 
the high-bandwidth/low noise info that comes from someone who has used the 
app for a while and is familiar with the concepts.

        There seems to be a smattering of interest in a get-together of 
sorts.  Anyone else out there?  Any crypto-cogniscenti who feel up to 
leading some cypher-neophytes out of the woods?

        How did Tanner's talk go at the NC*SA?  And where is Simon Spero 
in all this?  I heard that he once designed a secret decoder ring for the 
NSA.  ;-)

        More questions than answers.  This curiosity thing can be a pain....

TaB