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 <http://jimmythegeek.livejournal.com> > ------------------------------ > > *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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
