ALE Mailing List: ale@ale.org
NOTE: For December this year we’ll be combining our
ALE CENTRAL meeting with our ALE-NW meeting (at their
usual time and place) with a GPG/PGP Key Signing party.
Then we’ll hope you’ll join us for the after party with a little
solstice season socializing at the Marietta Diner.
ALE GPG/PGP Keysigning Party
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7:30pm to ~9:15pm
SPSU Campus, Atrium “J” Bldg. rm J-202,
on Thursday, December 12th.
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Organized, introduced and presented by Jeremy Bouse,
with an intro covering some typical daily use cases along
with explanation of the web of trust and why we do
the keysigning events themselves,
(directions link and parking notes below)
Synopsis:
— For those who participate, the key signing party serves to confirm
the identity of other PGP Key users by connecting them to a “key ring”
and including them in the “web of trust” needed to validate their keys,
signatures and identities in the wider world.
— Our ardent GPG enthusiast, keymaster Jeremy “Clortho” Bouse, will
present a brief GPG/PGP introduction and direct the key signing process
using the Hash Based Method as described in
http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html
Fully detailed “How To” files with shell command line examples and background
information on the process can be found at these links:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_131212.html
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-131212.html
— Participation in the key signing requires advanced preparations,
including generating and verifying any new keys you want to have
signed. The official ALE Key Signing Event has been registered on
the Biglumber Key Server:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?ev=46341
…and ALL keys that participants want to have signed must be registered
at the official Biglumber Keyring:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=9655
— The deadline for uploading your key to the Keyring is midnight,
(12:00am) on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (In other words, any
time _before_ Wednesday, December 11).
— The final step will be to download and print out Jeremy’s FINAL key ring
text file available on THURSDAY, 2013.12.12 (the day of the signing party).
The link for that is http://undergrid.net/ale13/ksp-ale13.txt
This link will also be announced with reminders to download on the ALE
mailing list. After downloading, fill in the checksum information for all
of the keys you have registered in the ring so you can easily confirm their
authenticity.
A reminder that fully detailed “How To” pages with command line examples
and background information on the process are found at these links:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_131212.html
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-131212.html
If you still have questions or need clarifications AFTER reviewing all of
the instructions above, you can email Jeremy via jbouse[AT]debian.org.
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ADDITIONAL PGP / GPG INFORMATION ON VIDEO:
— For those unfamiliar with PGP or interested in learning more about the
GnuPG implentation of PGP cryptography and the value of protecting your
privacy and your identity with PGP signatures, we suggest you review our
video of David Tomaschik’s March 2011 presesntation on the topic,
“Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPGâ€
This is available for download or streaming under the file name
“ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4” at this URL:
http://arxion.net/ale/
The video file is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
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DIRECTIONS
Southern Polytechnic State University
Room J-202 of the Atrium (J) building
For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
AFTER 7:00pm there is Free Parking in non reserved
spaces of the P60 deck. Parking there before 7:00pm
may get you ticketed, booted or towed.
Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance
directly east of the P60 parking deck.
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at
7:30pm in room 266J of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. This is the
same room as last semester. We will try something new in the format for this meeting:
a short presentation and a panel discussion.
a) Lightning Talk:
“How-To Setup Virtual Machines for Best Performance”
— This will target non-enterprise systems, suitable for small businesses and home
users. VirtualBox and KVM using virt-manager will included as time permits.
Presented by JD.
b) Discussion: “Linux Desktop Security Techniques”
— An interactive panel where the following topics will be considered:
* email
* browser and browser plugins
* firewalls
* remote access
* antivirus
* networking
* patch management
* SELinux and (whatever Ubuntu is pushing)
* Anonymous browsing
* bittorrenting and Usenet
* other topics from the audience
Orlando Karam and JDÂ are the confirmed panelist, but we are hoping for
other distinguished guests.
BIOS:
Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up in Mexico. He got hooked up with
Unix while a grad student at Tulane University, and has been running Linux on
servers and laptops for more than 15 years. He teaches computer science at
Southern Polytechnic State University, and is starting to use AWS for research
and development.
JDÂ has been a Linux user since 1993 on SLS, when you needed to
be A MAN to install it. He’s been using virtual machines since 1989 on MVS,
but started on midrange virtualization in 2000 with VMware Workstation and
Sun Microsystems Domains. The last 5 years, he has use almost every type of
virtualization available on Linux in production environments (VMware Player,
ESX, ESXi, Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox). He also enjoys running his main Linux
desktop, a virtual machine, from a private cloud that any computing device
supporting NX clients can access.
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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
======
ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us! Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com]
NOTE: Due to student activities at the Emory
venue, our December ALE CENTRAL Meeting is
being merged into the ALE-NW@SPSU meeting in
the form of a GPG/PGP Key Signing party with a
bit of post party solstice socializing at the
Marietta Diner.
ALE GPG/PGP Keysigning Party
===
7:30pm to ~9:15pm
SPSU Campus, Atrium “J” Bldg. rm J266,
on Thursday, December 13TH.
===
organized and presented by Jeremy Bouse
with special introduction by Michael Warfield
(directions link and parking notes below)
Synopsis:
— For those who participate, the key signing party serves to confirm
the identity of other PGP Key users by connecting them to a “key ring”
and including them in the “web of trust” needed to validate their keys,
signatures and identities in the wider world.
— Internationally recognized I.T. cryptography and security expert
Michael Warfield will present a brief GPG/PGP introduction, with our
ardent GPG enthusiast, keymaster Jeremy “Clortho” Bouse, directing
the key signing process.
— Participation in the key signing requires advanced preparations,
including generating and verifying any new keys you want to have
signed and then registering ALL keys you want to be signed with
the official event Keyring that is set up on the Biglumber Key server:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=2952
— The deadline for uploading your key to the Keyring is midnight,
(12:00am) on Tuesday, December 11, 2012.
— Detailed instructions, including “How To” info with shell command
line examples and background information on the process can be
found at these links:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_121213.html
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-111208.html
— The final step on the day of the signing party will be to download and
print out Jeremy’s final key ring text file (which will NOT be labeled “DRAFT”)
from http://undergrid.net/ale12/ksp-ale12.txt and then
fill in the checksum information for all of the keys you have
placed in the ring to confirm their authenticity.
If you still have questions or need clarifications AFTER reviewing all of
the instructions above, you can email Jeremy via jbouse[AT]debian.org.
========================
ADDITIONAL PGP / GPG INFORMATION ON VIDEO:
— For those unfamiliar with PGP or interested in learning more about the
GnuPG implentation of PGP cryptography and the value of protecting your
privacy and your identity with PGP signatures, we suggest you review our
video of David Tomaschik’s March 2011 presesntation on the topic,
“Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPGâ€
This is available for download or streaming under the file name
“ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4” at these URL’s:
http://arxion.net/ale/ and http://patshead.com/ale/
A torrent is also available at
https: //s3.amazonaws.com/datalore/ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4?torrent
The video file is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
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DIRECTIONS
Southern Polytechnic State University
Room J266 of the Atrium (J) building
Campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, November 8th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J-266
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The feature presentation will be:
Getting Started with Linux
On the Amazon Cloud
with Orlando Karam
Abstract:
– Amazon Web Services are among the most popular
“infrastructure-as-a-service” offerings on the internet;
they let you easily run Linux (and other OSs) as virtual
machines on Amazon’s infrastructure. In this talk, we
will give a brief introduction to capability and pricing,
and talk about how to start VMs from the web or from
scripts with the boto python library.
Speaker Bio:
– Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up in
Mexico. He got hooked up with Unix while a grad student
at Tulane University, and has been running Linux on
servers and laptops for more than 15 years. He teaches
computer science at Southern Polytechnic State University,
and is starting to use AWS for research and development.
=======
For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
======
ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us! Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com]
======
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J-266
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The feature presentation will be:
Securing a Debian Box to NISPOM Standard
Abstract:
In order for any computer system to hold classified data on a U.S. Government
system, it must be certified by the Defense Security System (DSS) which requires
the computer system to align to the National Industrial Security Program
Operation Manual (NISPOM) standards. By default, Red Hat Linux is the default
Linux operating system of choice by DSS and others are typically not passed. So
what does one do when a system is based on Debian and needs to meet NISPOM
standards? In this presentation, it will be shown the steps needed to meet
NISPOM standards on a Debian system.
Speaker Bio:
Jonathan Meek is a Research Scientist for Georgia Tech Research Institute, doing
work in the Quality Assurance Department of the Electronic Systems Lab. He holds
a bachelors degree in computer science and is currently working on his masters.
He started working with Linux in 2006 at the suggestion of one of his
professors. Previous to his work at Georgia Tech Research, he worked at King &
Spalding LLP on the IT Support team. His hobbies include running, writing, movie
trivia, and teaching the Computer merit badge to Boy Scouts. He holds
memberships with the National Eagle Scout Association, Association of Computer
Machinery and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
======
ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope
you will join us! Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com]
======