Kevin,
This would be a great presentation topic for a meeting, if not a security mini-conference. I know very little about GPG & keys, but I'd love to learn especially since I deal with servers that will, in the future at least, be running Linux. And as always, another layer of security is a good thing! Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 270.586.8397 www.gmpl.org Library Technology Blog <http://jimmythegeek.livejournal.com> _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Eldridge Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 12:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [nlug] Re: Any interest in a key signing party in the Nashville area? Hell Manoj, This sounds like a good idea. We should hold one in July, since we already have two meetings in June. It could event be the meeting topic. We could teach people about PGP key signing through the party. Not sure if this is what you are looking for. That will also give us enough time to plan the event. Let me know if that works or if anyone else has some thought on this subject or different time/date to hold the meeting. Kevin Eldridge On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:15 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Earlier this year, there was announced a fairly serious attack against the SHA1 digest algorithm (at eurocrypt), and the general consensus is that we should be "moving in an orderly fashion toward the theater exits," deprecating SHA-1 where possible with an eye toward abandoning it soon (federal agencies have been directed to cease all reliance on SHA-1 by the end of 2010). What are they moving to? I thought that the NIST was still fielding out a good hash algorithm. Infact this : http://media.omediaweb.com/rsa2009/keynote_catalog.htm (click on panel the discussion ) brushed over that topic. Given that, it is time to migrate off the old 1024-bit DSA keys, and migrate to newer 2048 or even 4096 bit RSA key-pairs, and then of course one has to regenerate the web of trust thing. Are there enough of us in the area to make a social key signing/beer/pizza event? I can help organize the event, if there is interest. And I'd love to get together with folks again; I have not been coming over very frequently at all to the meetings. Count me in. After reading the howto, would this be a NLUG ring? manoj 1. http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
