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[BLU/Officers] is there key-signing pre-talk? with speaker?



two lines? wouldn't a j shaped line work best for any number?

i,ll crib basic pgp alice+bob eeb of trust slides from teh web and
back fill from there.



On 9/19/11, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>
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> So far we only have 5 people signed up. Hopefully we'll have a few more
> before Wednesday.
> The other thing is how we are going to do the signing. Most of the time,
> we've paired up 2 lines, but other times when we don't have a lot of
> people signed up, we have 1 person at a time get up and go around the room.
> Bill,
> Do you want to moderate the actual keysigning, or either JABR and I can
> do it.
>
> On 09/19/2011 09:08 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>> Well, we need sufficient time for the keysigning procedure, so the talk
>> needs to be shorter than normal. It needs to convey what a keysigning
>> party is for, so newbies can understand why we're doing one.
>>
>> I'm guessing that a 45-minute talk should leave us enough time
>> to start the keysigning procedure by 8:15 or so. Is 45 minutes enough
>> time to cover both the historical stuff and the basics of PGP?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:09 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Turns out we had a miscommunication with Chris, and now we don't
>>>> have a crypto talk lined up. Can I list you as the speaker in the
>>>> BLU calendar?
>>>
>>> Sure. i'm the Crypto backup. :-)
>>> i did classical Crypto history chalk talk last substitute. Do we want
>>> all PGP why-and-how, or keep that short at the end as dessert, and
>>> something interesting and historical, maybe cryptanalysis, for the
>>> entre ?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> - --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix
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Bill
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