On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org>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 nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
