[sf-lug] Great book and an idea

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Catherine Jones (cathjone at eskimo.com):

> What we will be doing Monday, I guess, is establishing small "web of
> trust" - i.e. associating public keys with known people in a
> face-to-face setting.

Sure.  gpg implements that concept as opposed to the centralised model
used by "certificate" systems such as TLS/SSL.

Sorry I can't attend, but I'll be at a Guy Gavriel Kay reading at
Kepler's Books, that evening.  But these might help:
"Zimmermann-Sassaman Protocol" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Security/
"GnuPG Lecture" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Security/

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