On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dimitrios Bogiatzoules <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do note that I'm all in favour of increasing awareness of public-key >> encryption (and, in particular, the problems with it) within the general user >> community. However, I do not think this makes sense in the context of an >> introductory Linux exam. > > Still, it would be great if there was a way to transport the ideas of > public/private key and the web of trust to an average user, since the > MQC "Has a basic appreciation of system security, encryption and > user/groups and file permissions." [MQC description, > http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LinuxBasics#Minimally_Qualified_Candidate_Description].
Yeah, I guess I have to take that out of the MQC description. I wrote that during more optimistic times. ;) The feedback I received more echoed Anselm's sentiment about privacy and encryption (ie. it's too much to expect). Plus, take a look at the online shenanigans of the target demographics for this exam. Those folks don't give two hoots about privacy...until it bites them in the bottom. Then they sell t-shirts. I still remember the push back when I included GnuPG in the LPIC-1 objectives. Even LPIC-1 doesn't have the key publishing/ring and key revocations that it should. Maybe next update :) Regards, -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: EF9AAD20 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
