Apology in advance for top-posting. Let's do the presentation first  
and then a key signing party.

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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
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> 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
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