Apparently the mailing list move didn't go perfectly :-) In case you didn't get the mailing directly, I'm spamming this to the cypherpunks-related lists. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEXT Meeting: <http://cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/2000/0212.html> Main Homepage: <http://cryptorights.org/meetingpunks> ............................................................................ ADMINISTRIVIA: IMPORTANT NEWS: We've change the list to "meetingpunks" to make it easier to remember, and we're also going to begin the process of reporting on more than just San Francisco Bay Area Cypherpunk physical meetings. If you do not live in the San Francisco area but would like to host a Cypherpunks meeting in the city or town where you live, call your local cypherpunk friends, plan it for the SECOND SATURDAY of the month like the home meeting and let us know beforehand so we can post your announcement and your webpage. If you need help, contact the list meetingpunks-admin address. As usual, Cypherpunks meetings are devoted to advances in cryptography and computer/network security. If you're getting this announcement, you're clever enough to know what's going on and you know that there's more need than ever to globalize the Cypherpunk ethos. So, come and join us (even if we won't have you as a member ;). Besides the name-change, the "meetingpunks" list has also moved from FreedomFighter.net to the CryptoRights Foundation website, which is hosting us for free as part of their outreach projects, like the volunteer freeware PGP Help Team (thanks, CRF!). Since the CRF's website is under reconstruction, some "plaster dust" may settle here (yes, we know some of the links to old meetings don't work yet), but so far, it's working OK. Knock wood. Soon, you'll be able to contribute to the CRF's non-profit tax-deductible fund to protect human rights workers with cryptography (and training) as well as protecting security workers' human rights with activism. More on this in the near future. Our MLM is also changing to a majordomo, so the list un/subscribe commands have changed. See the homepage for a clickable mailto URL to make those procedures easier, and detailed email instructions are also at the end of this announcement. And now, we're very pleased to announce that Simson Garfinkle is appearing at tomorrow's meeting in San Francisco. Look below for details. We hope to see you (physically) there. :) Regards, dave (I am not a number, I am a man!) ............................................................................ February 2000 Cypherpunks Physical Meeting Announcement General Info: DATE: Saturday 12 February 2000 TIME: 12:00 - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) PLACE: San Francisco Law Enforcement Regional Training Center (San Francisco Police Academy) Room 102 (or follow signs) Heads-Up for February! "Greetings, Mr. Jones: can we interest you in a lovely set of Encyclopaedias?" The February 2000 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Cypherpunks will feature a presentation on the newly-released book "Database Nation" by author and privacy and cryptography activist Simson Garfinkle. Simson is known to many cypherpunks as the author of the PGP book, and he is currently involved in software and privacy technology development projects as well as writing a weekly tech column for the Boston Globe newspaper. We'll also discuss: Trust Management topics, the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on some major Internet e-commerce sites, elusive characters in cypherpunkdom, the forthcoming Financial Cryptography conference and "CPK," a revolutionary but unreviewed new cryptosystem. As always, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil and members of the Public are encouraged to attend. Meeting Agenda: 12:00 - 1:00 - Informal gathering, share food & beverages. 1:00 - 2:00 - General Meeting: "CPK" (David Liu) --Presenting "CPK", a new PKC system using revolutionary math not yet claimed to be secure pending formal cryptanalysis. David will solicit co-authors and input for a paper on CPK. "ThawteCrimes" (Bill Scannell) --A critical trust-analysis of Thawte's implementation of the Web of Trust. "CDnow?" (Dave Del Torto) --A brief trust-analysis of CDnow's secure website orders using a PGP key. <http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --CryptoRights Foundation "virtual root" key generation discussion. "Unicorn Hunting" (Sandy Sandfort) --Sandy leads us on a hunt for Truth about the wild, elusive Unicorn. "I-D" (Kristen Tsolis) --Intrusion detection mumble discussion mumble mumble, possibly including mumble comments on the recent mumble DDoS attacks and mumble CERT and CIAC mumble coordination. "FC'00" (All) --Financial Cryptography 2000 conference planning session. <http://www.fc00.ai> 2:00 - 4:00 - "Database Nation" --Simson Garfinkle (featured speaker) The author will be discussing his new book on privacy and technology, "Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century." (Copies are now available at bookstores: highly recommended!) 4:00 - 4:30 - Q&A with Simson Garfinkle 4:30 - 5:00 - Keysigning (Greg Broiles, Dave Del Torto) 1. Key owners should ensure their keys are on the Surfnet keyserver. 2. Send your primary PGP key information before Midnight (Zulu -8) on Fri 2000-02-11) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] make the SUBJECT line "2000-02-12 key-submission". In the message BODY, include: your primary key's Keyid, Userid, Size, hexadecimal Fingerprint and optionally the keying material (in an ASCII-armored PGP Public Key Block). Example: 0x28C029AF Dave Del Torto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4096 9B29 031D 70DE F566 E076 B108 904D FEA3 28C0 29AF -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- [optional keying material not shown in this example] IMPORTANT: bring to the meeting: (1) your key property info (above), (2) two forms of photoID, and (3) friends who can attest to your identity. After the Keysigning, the full key listing of keys submitted before the keysigning will be made available. Any keys submitted for last month's meeting will be printed out this month. 5:00 - ? - Dinner at a nearby restaurant usually follows the meeting. Location Info: Meeting Area: The meeting will be held in the main building of the San Francisco Law Enforcement Regional Training Center (aka the SF Police Academy), which is an old San Francisco public school building in the Diamond Heights district (which is just south of the Twin Peaks high point in the center of SF, and) not far from the "top" of the Market Street grade's intersection with Portola and Burnett. There is _ample_ parking available: once you pull into the Academy's driveway, just park between any two lines that bracket your car's width and don't have yellow stripes across them. If you want to buy or bring munchies for yourself and/or others, the Safeway shopping center (which includes a cafe or two with decent coffee) is a few yards from the southeast corner of the Academy's parking lot (down a flight of stairs). Enter the main door under the large "San Francisco Law Enforcement Regional Training Center" sign. You do NOT need to show ID, leave money/blood or otherwise be Matrixed to park or attend the meeting (this is an open meeting at an educational institution). Meeting Room: The meeting will be in Room 102, which is on the left just inside. It holds a normal-sized group, but if lots of people show up, we'll put up signs directing you to a larger room or into the Auditorium. If you want to present anything at the last minute, the agenda is fairly open (even though we have a couple of speakers), so come early (12:30) and arrange for the RGB laptop projector, the video setup or a blackboard so that you can give a rump talk. Location Maps: SF Police Academy (annotated with red traces). <http://freedomfighter.net/cypherpunks/maps/sfpd-acad.gif> Door-to-door directions (to 350 Amber Drive San Francisco CA 94131) can be obtained from Mapquest. Directions: 1. From the South Peninsula via 280 North: EXIT San Jose Ave STAY on San Jose Ave RIGHT on Rousseau Street RIGHT on Bosworth at stop-sign STAY on Bosworth RIGHT on Elk Street (GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North") 2. From the East Bay via Bay Bridge to SF: 80 West 101 South EXIT 280 South (GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North") 3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North: EXIT 280 South (toward Daly City) EXIT Monterey Blvd RIGHT at Stop LIGHT GET (immediately) into Left LANE LEFT at flashing amber light onto Diamond Street LEFT at stop sign on Bosworth RIGHT at second stop sign on Elk (GOTO "4. Final Directions") 4. Final Directions: Elk becomes Diamond (curve to right: see graphic map) GO uphill on Diamond (curve to left) PASS Safeway shopping center (N.B.:likely scene of post-mtg dinner) LEFT on Duncan Street at stop sign LEFT on Amber Drive (next left) IMMEDIATE LEFT into Academy driveway PARK in parking lot... Additional Meeting Notes: Next month: The March 2000 Cypherpunks Physical Meeting will be held on 11 March after the Financial Cryptography conference in Anguilla. Meeting details and location will be discussed at the 12 Feb meeting above and announced thereafter. If you have questions, comment or agenda requests, please contact the meeting organizers: Dave Del Torto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To UNSUBSCRIBE an address from this list send email to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with "unsubscribe meetingpunks <optional-address>" in the BODY. To SUBSCRIBE an address to this list send email to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with "subscribe meetingpunks <optional-address>" in the BODY. To contact the list-owner, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ............................................................................ EOF Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
