Apology in advance for top-posting. Let's do the presentation first and then a key signing party.
Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Kevin Eldridge <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree and was thinking the same thing. If Manoj would like to give > a presentation on this topic to NLUG, we could make it our July > meeting topic. It would be a good thing to present on as I know many > others would be very interested in hearing about this. > > Kevin Eldridge > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jim Peterson <[email protected] > > wrote: > 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 > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
