Tonight ?! The other meeting was only about 2 weeks ago!
Was there anybody that could talk about PGP/GPG encryption? I'm actually seriously doubting whether I can make it anyway. Maybe we could arrange a key-signing party for 3rd Dec or thereabouts. That's actually about a month from the last meeting anyway. A quick talk about what encryption is and how it works (at a not too detailed level[1]) could be followed by a key signing/swap thingy. We could also do something different for the end of the year. On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:48, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > I see that the bookings list has tonight as a meeting evening. > But there has been zilch about it on the list. > Are folks turning up? > What are we going to talk about? [1] What I mean is I don't think that there will be many who want a full mathematical description of the RSA or El-Hamal algorithms but we will all need to know about the concepts of public-private non-symmetric encryption and key signing etc. -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895
