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- From: whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk (Russell Earl Whitaker)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!eternity.demon.co.uk!whitaker
- Subject: MEETING: 2nd Cypherpunks UK
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- Organization: Extropy Institute
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:39:09 +0000
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- [I thought a month's notice on this (second) meeting would draw a little
- more interest. Our first meeting, 13 December 92, was a good start.
- -- Russell ;-) ]
-
- 2nd Meeting, Cypherpunks UK
- ---------------------------
-
- Chris Tame, of FOREST and the Libertarian Alliance, has generously
- offered the use of the meeting room at his offices for our gathering,
- Sunday, 10 January 1993, from 1300 onwards, at:
-
- FOREST
- 4th Floor
- 2 Grosvenor Gardens
- London SW1W 0DH
- 071-823-6550
-
- This is just around the corner from Victoria Station, at the end of the
- mansion block near Hobart Place. There's a dark green cabbie shelter
- across the street from the entrance, and some British Telecom payphones.
- Can't miss it, really. However, if you have trouble, call the telephone
- number above, or call my pager, on 081-812-2661.
-
- If it helps, we're in the direction of Buckingham Palace, which is
- (very) partially visible from our windows.
-
- If you wish to attend, you should bring a 3.5" DOS-formatted diskette
- (sorry! My UN*X machine is an Intergraph workstation, and I can't use
- it for crypto) with a copy of your PGP 2.0+ public key. I'll sign it
- there. Mac users: if you don't have Apple File Exchange (what!?), I'll
- be extra nice and take your keys anyway ( ;-)) for AFE conversion on my
- IIcx. Not to fear.
-
- It might not be a bad idea to copy your public key on each of several
- diskettes, so you've got a copy to distribute to each of the others.
- Don't trust me to copy *your* key to others! As a matter of fact, as
- there are plenty of power points in the meeting room, you should bring your
- laptop, and/or a desktop PC: when someone hands you a disk-with-key,
- you can sign her key, and hand her back her diskette, with your own
- pubkey added.
-
- [Note to the novice: don't hand another person your secret key... the
- one named secring.pgp.]
-
- This should be a lively meeting. Among the topics likely to be
- discussed are:
-
- o The proliferation of PGP public keys in the U.K.
- o The local development of anonymous remailers and a proposed
- automatic public key repository at Demon Internet Systems
- o Electronic networking/email security for the novice
- o Pro-active proliferation of PGP 2.1+ to interesting European,
- African, and Asian sites
- - ftp placement
- - BBS distribution
- - sneakernet across borders
- o The use of HPACK in securing local file installations
-
- .. and much more!
-
- Mark Turner, from Demon Internet Systems, is likely to be on hand to
- demo DIS for non-DIS users. We've set up our own local, high-quality
- newsgroups:
- demon.security
- demon.security.keys
-
- and established the /pub/ibmpc/pgp archives on gate.demon.co.uk (expanding
- recently to include all versions of PGP, and "fellow traveller" files).
-
- Hope to see you there!
-
- Semper vigilans,
-
- --
-
- Russell Earl Whitaker whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
- Communications Editor 71750.2413@compuserve.com
- EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought AMiX: RWHITAKER
- Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
- ================ PGP 2.0 public key available =======================
-