On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:56, you wrote: > Tonight ?! Yes, I've re-checked the WWW page:- http://canterbury.lug.net.nz/
> The other meeting was only about 2 weeks ago! Indeed it was. > Was there anybody that could talk about PGP/GPG encryption? While not in any way an expert at the "detailed level[1]" I could give an off the cuff demo which might be marginally interesting. i.e. I'd much rather listen to somebody who knew the subject better. > I'm actually seriously doubting whether I can make it anyway. Pity, you'll miss out on a home made biscuit and or a bite of carrot cake. > 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. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
