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.

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Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell

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