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Date and Time
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
MIT Building 4-370
Presenter
Jerry Feldman, Associate Director, Boston Linux & Unix - gaf blu org
Summary
A general discussion on how to use GNU Privacy Guard
Abstract
The talk will cover a brief history of cryptoraphy focused on the exchanging of information over an insecure medea, such a The Internet. The discussion will include some basic definitions, such as
- What is a key
- What is the difference between Public Key methods (non-symmetrical) and Secret key methods (symmetrical)
- What is a Digital Signature
- What is clearsign vs. MIME encoded signatures
- And a few more...
The last half of the talk will focus on how to use GnuPG on Linux to generate your own key pair, exchange keys with others, signing others keys, validate someone else's digital signature, revoking a key or a signature.
