[PLUG] Thoughts from last night's meeting.

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

Some totally unrelated thoughts:

Those of you who were mortally offended by Jeff's glossing of
one-way functions, hashes, and message digests will no doubt be
thrilled to know that I'll gloss at least slightly less in July.

This came up over dinner:
  http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~agr/
If you go off and also read:
  http://eclipsed.net/~gr/April1.txt
bear in mind that I knew far less about Postscript then than now
and that I do know what's wrong in there. (If you don't know anything
about Postscript, it doesn't matter much that there are some minor
mistakes, because if you were to ever go off and play with it
yourself, you'd figure out the details pretty promptly. The mistakes
are mostly naming conventions, really, that don't affect any
functionality.)

And, finally, PGP stuff!

- Those of you who want more than the photo-ID check should set
about trading pseudo-random phrases. Anybody who wants this gets
to explain it to the people they want it from.
- In any case, for signing keys, please send a signed key to its
owner. Please also send a copy of the signed key to Mike Leone
<turgon@mike-leone.com> so that he can update the PLUG keyring (see
http://www.phillylinux.org/keys/). Please do NOT send a signed key
to key servers without the owner's prior permission[1] EVEN IF YOU
GOT IT THERE.

[1] Certain keyservers munge certain key types irreparably, making
it very difficult for the key's owner to get the correct key
published.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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