[XCSSA] Feb 18th XCSSA Meeting: Gaming Night! (7pm SAC Nail Tech Center)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

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Hey all!

This month is Encryption HOWTO Month!  To prepare for next month's keysigning 
party, we're first spending a little time talking this month about how to 
actually USE encryption and digital signatures in your every day life. :)

Check out the three (yes three!) presentations that we have lined up for this 
Monday!

1) Encryption Filesystem HOWTO: Travis H.
In a day of increasing laptop use, theft, and identity theft -- many companies 
and individuals alike are looking into and implementing various forms  
filesystem based encryption.

One of our old experts Travis H. (now living in Austin), will be giving us a 
remote, live video conference based talk on Linux filesystem encryption and 
how to fully implement them on your home or laptop systems.  We're not sure 
if it will be an interactive presentation yet -- it depends on the 
connectivity between our locations and the hardware we're using.

2) Email Based GPG Encryption and Digital Signatures: Richard D.
As a follow up Richard Davey's January presentation on the history of 
encryption and GPG, Richard's planning on discussing how to use GPG with 
popular UN*X mail packages for both encryption and doing digital signatures 
(as this email is signed by me).

3) Personal File Based GPG Encryption and Security: Tweeks
Tweeks will be showing some basic Linux tools for doing per-file based 
encryption, shredding, ascii-armoring and digital signing in KDE, Gnome and 
from the shell.

Finally (as if that wasn't enough), we're planning on wrapping all this great 
info up with an overview of what everyone needs to do to prepare for the big 
GPG keysigning party next month.  Yes, that's right!  For those of you who 
want to actually create digital keys and get them signed by each other next 
month,  you will have some homework to do. :)  So if you're planning on 
joining our key based "web of trust", then stick around after this Monday's 
presentations for this final set of participatory instructions.

Sounds like a info packed meeting, you won't want to miss it!
Hope To See you there! 

Where: SAC NTC (http://xcssa.org/#MAP)
When:  Feb 18th, 7pm(ish)
Room:  025 (in basement)

Tweeks
President of XCSSA.ORG
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