GatorLUG Meeting Agenda for April 19, 2006

6:00 - 6:30 Question and Answer/ General Discussion

Annoucements, LOGO Discussion, Google Summer of Code,

SG Technology Cabinet Director

All submitted logos can be found here: http://www.gatorlug.org/node/58 [1]

Auction:

Grandstream BudgetTone 100 ($65 street value) and HandyTone 486 ($55 street value)

These items are useful for VoIP stuff.

6:30 - 7:15 Presentation - Hardened Kernels, Encrypted Filesystems - Michael Liesenfelt

File System Cryptography is the encryption of an entire file system or partition on a hard disk or other block device. A symmetric key is used to encrypt and decrypt the contents of an encrypted file system. The most common algorithm is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 128bit, 192bit, or 256bit lengths.

7:15 - 8:00 Presentation - Using GPG, Keysigning - Ben Preston and JC Jones

Keysigning instructions are here: http://www.gatorlug.org/node/56 [2]

GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC2440 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communcation, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries are available.

More information is available about GPG here: http://www.gnupg.org/ [3]