For those not yet familiar with encryption, public keys and so on: Public-key encryption for dummies http://www.nwfusion.com/news/64452_05-17-1999.html
GnuPG MiniHOWTO http://webber.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html GnuPG User Guide: Chapter 1: Getting Started http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html http://www.gnupg.org GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) is an implementation of PGP but uses free algorithms instead of patented ones for encryption. The reason why Dustin proposes a key exchange at the next meeting is so that we can relate a given key with a face (establish identity). If I were simply to give out my public key via email, you would have to trust I am who I say I am, as well as trust that the email was not modified during transit. If you follow the steps in either the GnuPG MiniHOWTO or Chapter 1 of the GnuPG User Guide, you should end up with a working install of GPG and a public key you can give out to others. If you don't have a wireless laptop, put you public key on a write-protected floppy disk and bring that. Make sure the MIBs don't that disk while you are in transit to the meeting. John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Dustin Puryear To: [email protected] Sent: 12/27/02 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New York Time: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet At 05:12 PM 12/27/2002 -0600, you wrote: >A encrypted list for testing would be cool. Izzat doable, Dustin? Not really, at least not though brlug.net. We are using Mailman. I can create a test list for people toying with PGP and the like though. I'd suggest a key-exchange day at the next meeting perhaps. >The meeting may be on another day. > >Mat Branyon wrote: >>Maybe we could start a little side project of encrypting the general >>list... or perhaps making an encrypted list... just to get kind of >>familiar with doing so. >>i wont be able to make the meeting. :( > >-- >John Hebert: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >System Engineer: I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com 225.922.4535 > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
