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October 17th XCSSA Meeting


Where: Nail Technical Cetner, San Antonio College (north of down town S.A.)
When: Date listed above, 7pm
Subject(s): Formal subjects below, plus what ever people bring in to play with... :)



Intro to PGP/GPG Encryption By Richard Davies
Richard is an expert in the security field and will be giving us an overview of PGP/GPG based encryptions, how they work, and how you can set them up and use them, how digital signatures work, and go over key signing. His topics will include:


Brief History of Encryption

Dual Key Encryption

Evolution of PGP

GPG takes over Open Source Encryption

Risks of dual Key encryption

Importance of Key Signing / Trust

Other Links:

Bletchleypark

Theiia.org




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• 2004-05: The SCO/Llinux Lawsuit quickly being deflated in the legal arena.
• 2002-01: The "Open K-12 Petition Drive" declares, "The Settlement Has Been Rejected by Honorable Judge Frederick Motz" regarding the throwing out of the settlement for Microsoft in its anti-trust case.
• 2001-11-05: Some of Infoworld's latest thoughts about Windows XP here and here.
• 2001-10-30: A good article on how Amazon.com switched to Linux to save millions on their technology costs.
• 2001-06-27: An article from Tech Republic on Five steps to deploying Linux in the enterprise. Good Read for IT management.
• 2001-11-06: A good artile on how Linux is finding it's way into many tech-products via the back end, replacing higher priced commercial OS'.

In ROOM #140 of the Nail Technical Center

Above is a picture of the Nail Technical Center (north bound San Pedro in the left background).

Our user group's members are not your 
normal run of the mill geeks.  We pride our-
selves in having a wide array of technical and IT
professionals who excel in their fields.  I have found
that I can bring most any question to the group and get an
insightful answer, and thus, have begun pointing recruiters to our 
members as a service to both.  Feel free to contact the members below 
for job history and resume information.  They're a powerfully diverse resource!

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