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Keywords: Privacy Unix Linux gnhlug Beer The next meeting of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User's Group will be on Wednesday, February 19th, in room 301 of Morse Hall on the Durham campus of the University of New Hampshire (directions below), starting at 7:00 P.M. Our agenda will be Mr. Rodney Thayer discussing the use of Pretty Good Privacy and how to use it on Linux. We are hoping to have a live demo. Mr. Thayer's bio and abstract are below. We also plan to have a discussion (started at the last meeting) about a bill going through the New Hampshire House that would allow an electronic signature to have the same authority as a hardcopy one. In addition, we will be discussing the plans for the Linux Installation Fest on Saturday, March 1st. This is where we are going to try and help new users of Linux install Linux to their systems, and help old users of Linux to update. Newbies take precedence, since we think that people that have been using Linux awhile know what they are doing (well, except for those Digital Marketing types). The discussion items for tonight currently are: o discuss installation needs (disk space, knowledge of system parameters such as video board chip set, monitor refresh rate, etc.) o discuss purchasing of needed equipment (more disk space, supported video cards, etc.) at a computer show on February 22nd (http://www.ncshows.com/) o discuss pre-installation fest activities such as backing up system, and carving up disk space Finally, we will start to confirm people who have registered through the web site at: http://www.sr.unh.edu/~rea/linux/installfest/form.html YOU HAVE TO REGISTER....FOR SEVERAL REASONS: o we need to know what you have on your system (more or less) o we need to know that you know what you have on your system o we need to know how many people are planning on coming, so we can panic now, instead of at the last minute. Of course we will panic at the last minute anyway, but being masochists we realized that having the form allows us to suffer over a much longer time. :-) We plan on doing the bulk of the installations via CD-ROM, so it is good if you have a CD-ROM on your system. Floppy distributions are tedious, and not that many people have ETHERNET cards. Don't be upset if you don't know ALL of the information on the form, but there are some things which are fairly critical to know: o are your disks IDE or SCSI o What type of SCSI controller do you have, if any? o What is the make and chipset of your video card, and how much video ram does it have? o Bring along the page out of your manual on your monitor that talks about the statistics of horizontal and vertical sync (usually in the back of the manual) o What type of sound card, and its IRQ and control layout o If your CD-ROM plugs into your sound card, what type of CD-ROM is it. o What type of ETHERNET or network card just do your best to fill out the form, and know that the more information you have, the easier the installation will be. We plan on mainly using Red Hat 4.1, but there was some mention at the last meeting about using Slackware also, so there will be some other distributions there. At the last meeting we also discussed future topics. These topics are: o 3D video cards: What can they do, how does XFree86 support them o rpm - a real packaging system, or just another pretty face? What can you do with rpm, and can it help you? o A comparison of the Debian release of Linux with the others o A comparison of Hurd with Linux o Bug Lists in Linux - what is broken, and for how long o Security - how to install it and set it up (including PAM and Password shadowing) o Firewalls o Real Time Linux o SMP, and where it will be in 6-8 months o PVM and other parallel machines (C* talk?) o Alpha customers and their experiences vs SPARC and Intel o non-Intel architecture Linux o netBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux o SGML - the Linux Documentation Project and how to write it up o Commercial uses of Linux So that about caps the mail. I will start to find out where I caSo that about caps the mail. I will start to find out where I can get speakers for some of these topics. You start thinking about whether you wish to participate in the installation fest, either as a helper or an installee. Hope to see you at the meeting on the 19th, if not at the fest. md ====================Rodney Thayer's bio and abstract========================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Greater New Hampshire Linux User's Group Presents Rodney Thayer Sable Technology Corporation "Applying PGP To Digital Commerce" Rodney Thayer has 20 years experience in the software development business. For the past 10 years he has been designing, implementing, deploying, and troubleshooting networking software. He currently is the Principal of a consulting firm based in Newton, Massachusetts where he is involved in the implementation of communications products for a variety of customers, including software vendors, major end-user organizations, and several governmental organizations both foreign and domestic. He also writes and lectures on the deployment, troubleshooting, and implementation of data communications networks. Mr. Thayer will talk about how PGP can be used in the business world today, for exchange of information, digitally identifying documents, and other commerce applications. In this presentation, we will discuss the application of PGP, including mechanics, the cryptographic and legal issues, and the infrastructure requirements for it's use. The state of the art in digital message encryption is now at the point where it has become practical to use encrypted and digitally signed email for digital commerce. Recently, one scheme, PGP, has emerged from the realm of the cyberpunk as a legitimate tool for business. Commercial products are now available that support PGP encryption in electronic mail and for documents and digital storage. PGP is no longer a cult tool for computer junkies and cyberpunks. It is a legitimate, sound cryptographic technology that can be used, today, for digital commerce. As an increasingly crypto-aware business community searches for solutions, the question of how to use message encryption tools such as PGP becomes germaine to the business community. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: SafeMail? 1.0b6 e32 iQCVAwUBMsb+IvgyLN8bw6ZVAQEhRgP/b5Q5u83gIUAqJYPHp6J/BxKUrFjy/fYH J4EqvEvjKrdWE0jcwE34ISf+qUmBS+rZZRYVMsQ8jiVa/uF8TwNNTEEe5kMUPpne UtKvuJOEosFURwGfR4OLoYu1NsqPNuzAD40dwfQDQGVcmTqNlivhikZByE4MTNVz bUlII450N/8= =IS1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ========================Directions to Morse Hall=============================== Non-Richly-Formatted Directions to Morse Hall: Proceed to University of New Hampshire, on Rt. 155A in Durham, New Hampshire Coming in from Route 4 you will be entering the town from the west.. Continue past the tennis courts on the right, over the railroad tracks which run under the road, and go to the first traffic light. Turn right. You will pass a road on your right, but keep going. Eventually you will see Morse Hall on your left and an after-hours parking lot (F lot) on your right. Park in F lot. Proceed to Morse Hall, across the street. On the first floor of Morse Hall you can only get into the building from opposite sides of the building. One door is on the street side, while the other faces the rest of campus and has only walking access. Room 301, on the third floor (natch). -- ============================================================================= Jon "maddog" Hall Internet: maddog at zk3.dec.com Senior Leader, UNIX Software Group Executive Director, Linux International Digital Equipment Corporation Linux International Mailstop ZK03-2/U15 80 Amherst St. 110 Spit Brook Rd. Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. Nashua, N.H. 03062-2698 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Voice: +1.603.881.1341 Voice: +1.603.672.4557
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