Count me in if there is such a workshop. I have been interested in GPG to communicate with my kids in Europe and Asia etc..Thank you very much. <br>I am busy with a project at work until late May, so some time in June or later if possible..<br><br>I also have a barely operating double boot laptop I am just about to install a new hard drive on, and want to update the OSs as well as a desktop I put together about 9 years ago and had libranet installed at a Cabal meeting that could use some guidance re all new internals and OS, Maybe I need to come to 2 or 3 Saturdays<br><br>BTW, I live in a a pretty large rental loft (1085 sq ft) in downtown Oakland with a little server room and ethernet plugs, and a nice open plan kitchen I have been thinking might be useful if anyone ever wants to do one of these installfest events or similar things in the East Bay urban setting. <br><br>Thank you again, Rick and
<span><em>Deirdre</em></span> for the great gatherings. I think their effect may be unimaginably large<br><br>Lorne Salter <br><br><br><b><i>Mark Weisler <mark@weisler-saratoga-ca.us></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi,<br>I hereby offer to facilitate a GPG/PGP workshop at a CABAL meeting. The <br>objective would be to introduce the basics of privacy through encryption. We <br>would use GPG for this but could also use PGP if someone wanted to. The <br>orientation will be toward the practical rather than the theoretical or <br>mathematics involved.<br><br>Curriculum outline.<br>We will discuss the need for privacy in communications and the threats to <br>privacy. We will discuss encryption at a high but practical level. The <br>intention of the workshop is so people can leave with the ability to:<br>* encrypt files<br>* encrypt and send mail messages<br>* decrypt files<br>*
decrypt mail received mail messages<br>* work with others using encryption (key exchanging)<br>* assess the security of their communications methods<br><br><br>Preparation.<br>Some advance reading would be good. Rick has a very good article here:<br>http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Security/gnupg.html<br><br>And "Introduction to Cryptography" is an updated version of a classic paper on <br>the subject:<br>http://www.pgp.com/downloads/whitepapers/index.html#cryptography<br><br><br><br>What to Bring.<br>Bring the Linux or Macintosh computer on which you intend to use GPG for <br>secure communications and storage. As an option, you could bring some form of <br>identification with your photograph as we will, at your option, exchange <br>information (including public encryption keys). More on that at the workshop <br>(you'll read about that in Rick's material-it's called a key signing event or <br>party). <br><br><br>If you are interested please suggest a date (a regular CABAL date)
to the list <br>or to me off-list and we give it a go. We would start early by arriving <br>around 1PM, get set up, and then begin the workshop around 2PM.<br><br>-- <br>Mark Weisler <br>"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our <br>people need it sorely on these accounts." ---Mark Twain---<br>PGP: 0x68E462B6 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/<br>tel. (831) 531-2916<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>conspire mailing list<br>conspire@linuxmafia.com<br>http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire<br></blockquote><br>