[XCSSA] Upcoming GPG/PGP Encryption and Digital Signatures Meetings?

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Wed Jan 30 13:26:32 CST 2008


There is a vim plugin for transparent editing of gpg encrypted files.
It makes using gpg for encrypting files so much easier.
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=661


On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:18 -0600, X-otic Computer Systems of San
Antonio wrote:
> Hey all..
> 
> Richard Davey gave a pretty sweet presentation "Intro to PGP/GPG Encryption" 
> in January... and here's what we were thinking about doing over the next two 
> months.
> 
> February: How to Use GPG for Encryption and Digital Signatures
> This upcoming month we are thinking about getting a couple of local (and maybe 
> a remote) experts to talk about how to practically USE GPG encryption and 
> digital signatures.  This will probably break down into a few centrally 
> useful topics:
> -HOWTO on Individual file encryption in KDE & Gnome and bash
> -HOWTO on Doing Digital Signatures
> -Overview on Crypto filesystems
> 
> March: XCSSA/SATLUG GPG Keysigning Party
> Having learned in February how to USE GPG signatures and encryption in your 
> every day life, we can now get together for an official keysigning party to 
> help build and extend the "web of trust" (more info here 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust).  Once you upload your key out to 
> the net and get your GPG key signed by the other attendees, you'll be all 
> ready to begin doing a great many things more securely.
> 
> 
> Any questions, comments or related subjects you would like to see?
> 
> Tweeks
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