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[Lisa Lorenzin <lorenzin AT 1000plus.com>]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                    NC*SA General Meeting
             6:00 pm, Monday, November 11th, 2002
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)

        Topic:  Keysigning and Email Discussion

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Abstract:  
At our August meeting, Tanner Lovelace gave an enlightening talk on
OpenPGP/GnuPG encryption; his presentation is available at

http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/gpg-trilug_files/v3_document.htm

for those who were unable to attend, or would like a refresher.  As a
followup to that presentation, we're going to hold a centralized
keysigning at our November meeting,

To participate in the keysigning, please generate a key pair (if you
haven't already) and send your public key info (Key ID, Key Type, Hex
Fingerprint, and Key Size) to ncsa-steer AT ncsysadmin.org before 10pm on
Sunday, November 10th.

The keysigning will work as follows:

The steering committee will compile a key list and provide a copy to each
person at the meeting.  Each participant will verify that their key
fingerprint is correct on the key list.  One participant at a time will
read out their key fingerprint so that everyone else can check it off on
their list.  Once all the keys have been read aloud, the participants will
form a line and hold out their IDs for verification, and each person will
walk down the line and check IDs.  After the keys and IDs have both been
verified, we can all sign each other's keys.

So - things you need to bring:
A writing implement
A photo ID (two forms would be ideal - i.e., driver's license and passport)
Your key information (see above for what's needed)

If you're new to public key encryption, here are some resources to help
you learn about the subject and/or just generate your key:

A good introduction to PGP for Windows users, including key generation -
http://web.bham.ac.uk/N.M.Queen/pgp/pgp.html

How to generate a key using GnuPG - 
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html#toc3

The comp.security.pgp FAQ - 
http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/pgp-faq.html

Following the keysigning, there will be a general discussion on email
issues relevant to system administration, including spam, managing system
email, etc.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer AT ncsysadmin.org

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For information about the NC System Administrators group, please see
our web site at http://www.ncsysadmin.org/

We have several usually-low-volume mailing lists that you can join:

    ncsa-discussion .. general discussion
    ncsa-announce .... meeting announcements
    ncsa-jobs ........ employment opportunities
    ncsa-steer ....... steering committee

These are currently run on a Mailman list manager at 
ncsysadmin.org - please see this page on our web site 
for more information about these lists:  
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/lists.html

(Please note, if you are a member of sage-members AT usenix.org, you
will also get a copy of these announcements.  We cannot unsubscribe
you from that list.)

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Directions to Research Triangle Institute
See also a map to the meeting place.

>From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.

Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.

>From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
enter at the main entrance.

>From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
entrance.

A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif

Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
into Dreyfus Auditorium.

--
Lisa Lorenzin
lorenzin AT 1000plus.com