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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] more crypto/security
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:46:47 -0400

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which seems to be a little out-of-date.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




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