[TriLUG] "TBA" Course Curriculum and Other Matters

Cristóbal Palmer cmp at cmpalmer.org
Fri Jan 2 21:55:50 EST 2009


I'm pretty darn sick and will be staying at home tomorrow, so if
others want to do this that's great, but I'm out of commission. It's
looking like February if I'm going to be involved.

-CMP

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbarcea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this event still on?  I'd like to attend as well.
>
> Happy New Year,
> Hadrian
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Brian McCullough wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:04:52PM -0500, Brian McCullough wrote:
>>> OK, so we have, at least tentatively, agreed on an "all day" course
>>> on
>>> Saturday, 3 January 2009,
>>
>>
>> I have suggested several different general and specific topics.
>> What do
>> people think is desirable and practical for such a tutorial or
>> seminar?
>>
>>
>> Suggestions include:
>>
>>
>> Web of Trust ( PGP-style and CA-style ( Thawte and CACert )),
>> The History of Certificates,
>> History of CACert and the Audit Process,
>> How to Create and Use Certificates,
>> The Implementation of your own private CA,
>> The Role of the CACert Assurer,
>> The Rights and Responsibilities of a CACert Community Member
>> History of E-Mail and Web Certificates, Signatures and Encryption
>> Definitions and other Trivia
>> History of PGP and CAcert and How They Relate to Other CAs
>> Theory of Webs Of Trust
>> Theory of X.509 Certificates
>> Practical use of PGP and X.509 Certificates
>> Assuring party -- probably as part of the Lab, above.
>>
>>
>> Obviously, covering all of these topics is impossible in the time
>> available to us.
>>
>>
>> Brian
>>
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