[TriLUG] GPG Key signing party

[rpjday]

On 6 Jan 2002, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 22:05, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > Well, since I volunteered to put the keys together, I might as
> > well go all the way and volunteer to give the talk.  As long
> > as I've got a month or two to study up on it, it shouldn't be
> > that bad. :-)  (BTW, does anyone have a copy of the O'Reilly
> > PGP book I can borrow..? :-)
> 
> Alright! Grab me Thursday and we'll check for the next available month -
> March at the earliest, as I recall. (February is RPM/DEB Packaging
> month)
> 
> Oh, and I dunno about the O'Reilly PGP book - but the GnuPG dos are
> excellent, and as soon as I can get a copy I'll be digging into Applied
> Cryptography and possibly The Codebreakers. Not that I understand any of
> the math, mind you. (And yes, I just finished Cryptonomicon. Now on to
> Java Security by O'Reilly)

the math behind public key crypto is not that bad (mind you, this
coming from someone who took grad courses in crypto and number theory
once upon a time).  i can explain it in 10-15 minutes some day with
a marker and whiteboard.  i think.

rday