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PGP Key Signing Party

by Eric Martin

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This upcoming meeting we are going to have a PGP Key Signing Party. For those of you who don't know what PGP is, allow me to briefly explain. This is all base off of the GPG Key Signing HOWTO (http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/kspa/gpg-party.en.html) which I suggest for further reading. Those who do know can feel free to skip down to the next paragraph. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, and is a Public Key Infrastructure that allows us to communicate securely and deal with data in a secure fashion. There is a public key that one would typically upload to a server and a private key that you hold on to. With the private key you can decrypt / sign, and with the public key you can encrypt / verify emails and documents. Key signatures come into play when you validate that a specific key belongs to a specific person and extend the web of trust. Here's what needs to be done BEFORE the meeting on your computer, or on a secure terminal (e.g. not in a computer lab on your campus). I'll post directions both for GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) and Kgpg (the KDE front - -end to gpg for all of those who like GUIs). 1. Generate a Key Pair / Verify your key won't expire soon gpg --gen-key (Default values of DSA/Elgamal is fine and the default of 2048 is good.) I recommend 3 - 5 years for a key lifespan (how long the key will be good for) 1a) for those of you wishing to use Kgpg, goto Keys -> Generate Key Pair and fill in the dialog box Once you create the New key pair, check the Save As box under _Revocation Certificate_ to save a Revocation Certificate (see 2) 1c) For those of you who already have a key, make sure yours isn't about to expire (like mine did). If it has expired, you can extend the life by $ gpg --edit-key <key-id> and typing expire at the command prompt next, generate a new key-pair and sign your new key with your old key so anyone who trusted your old one will trust the new one. 2) Generate a revocation certificate Revocation certificates are for situations where you forget your passphrase, the key becomes comprised, etc you can revoke your key. $ gpg --output revoke.asc --gen-revoke <key-id> Save this in multiple places, print a copy etc in case you need it. 2GUI) If you didn't create a revocation cert in Kgpg, just right click on your new key and select Revoke Key. when the box pops up only check Save As 3) Upload your key to the Designated server for this party (pgp.mit.edu) $ gpg --send-key --keyserver=pgp.mit.edu <key-id> 3GUI) Right Click on the Key, select Export Public Keys, select Default Key Server (make sure it's pgp.mit.edu under Settings) 4) Email me your key's fingerprint so I can add it to the list $ gpg --fingerprint <key-id> Copy and Paste that into an email to the coordinator (me, Eric Martin). 5) print out a copy of that same output and bring it to the meeting. I'll make up a check list and bring them to the meeting for everyone to use. Example output from Step 4: pub 1024D/A9413B9F 2007-04-09 [expires: 2010-04-08] Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F uid Eric J. Martin <eric.joshua.martin(a)gmail.com> uid Eric J. Martin <freak4uxxx(a)gmail.com> sub 2048g/01F81B8E 2007-04-09 [expires: 2010-04-08] my <key-id> is A9413B9F (which is always the same as my last 8 hex digits of my fingerprint). If like me you don't always remember your key-id you can use your email address and it will still work. My full key information is: Key ID: A9413B9F Key Type: DSA Hex Fingerprint: D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F Key Size: 1024 (The DSA key is always 1024 bits. The ElGamal Encryption key is 2048 bits in my case, but isn't needed for the keysigning party.) What you should bring to this party 1. Yourself, no exceptions 2. Two forms of positive photo ID - driver's license and passport are good 3. Key Id, Key Type, Hex Fingerprint and Key size info ***Please print out your own copy of your info to compare against mine when you arrive *** 4. Pen / Pencil What you Should Not Bring 1. Computer I want to thank Chuck Anderson for helping me out. If you have any questions please let me know. Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMBvKaiVxdKlBO58RAsCVAJ9cA488l+SybdxD+rgqNWGi/U9tUQCeMvH8 UAhMTFVRG5SbVVn5jqbVwqg= =BSzn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

18 years, 6 months

Re: We've got a meeting next week on the 13th!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "soup" == soup via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: I suspect that now that Broadcom is releasing their new ARM CPU and MS is shipping windows on it, there will be alot more ARM based boards out there, and they should be pretty good for running linux. In my use case though, I'd be happy to run on ARM for my personal email hosting and simple web stuff, but it's the memory that's the killer. I want to get a Linode with more RAM (1gb just doesn't cut it when you try to run rspam...) so I can run postfix/dovecot/rspam and all the other stuff you need for doing email well these days. Stuff like setting up keys, DMARC, SPF, signing outgoing emails, re-signing forwarded emails, etc. It's honestly getting pretty damn tough to run your own mail server well these days. > Damn that's some metal. Pricing is up there for a workstation > though. It'll drop hopefully, especially with Win11 ARM on the > horizon. Much obliged for the info. > --- > soup > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 4:19 PM Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In my data center I've got a bunch of Ampere ARM servers and they're awesome. U.2 NVME, lots > of PCI slots, etc. > https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/everything-ive-learned-building-fast… > Tim. > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 1:51 PM soup <soupforare(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any shipping ARM boards/chips for the consumer market? Quick look just shows a > few ATX server boards with, relatively, ancient ARMs bundled. > The stuff Apple is shipping has the same T2 "problem" the later intel machines have with > running linux, it's kind of a pain, delicate, and ruins the point of having the hardware > security in the first place. It'd be amazing if they'd work on 1st party support but > considering their business model I don't see that ever happening. > On the server side, I'm loving ARM. I saw the revolution coming back when AWS Graviton was > first announced. Pushed a lot of things at work over early. With go binaries it's as > simple as a compile flag. Graviton2 offerings were ~1/3 off the equivalent intel machines > for EC2, similar discount for lambda. For some of our workloads they were faster than > intel too. Haven't had occasion to test the grav3 stuff but I imagine it's better still. > If you've got things in interpreted language, go, or projects that have been cross-arch > and stable a while- mariadb, postgresql, nginx, et al., definitely would suggest seeing > how it'd work for you. > --- > soup > On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 12:20 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Keith, > It wasn't just you. It seems that it maxes out at some low number of users.. why.. > worth investigating, but not at the expense of people being able to get into the > meeting. > Yeah, ARM for linux has been the "hotness" for a while. Pi definitely brought it to > the forefront, but now more and more there are viable arm desktops. > As for the AI, there are some FOSS solutions out there that are shockingly amazing. > "ollama" is just one of them. > No need to pay NVidia for AMD for the privilege. > Tim. > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 1:58 PM Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> wrote: > Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: >> We've got a meeting next week! Note, I won't be using our own Jitsi server >> but going to back to the old one since we've had so many issues. > I think part of the problem was with my micophone to webserver > interface. > At this point I am thinking of this more as a test than a meeting, > but I plan to do it. >> If there's a topic that people would like us to tackle, I'd be up for it! > I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the latest hardware, but > the radio said something about ARM processor that caught my attention. > ARM means rasberry pi means Linux, no? Wikipedia has an enormous > article (the Citations alone are 11 pages two column) but the last > thing on the page seems to say that Wine is no longer for playing > Windows games on Linux, but that MS needs it to prop up the ass end > of their sorry operating system. Is the monopoly gone? > The radio also speaks of Nvidia. They sell those Invidious graphics > cards. The ones that need special secret drivers that only work if > you have the right *.dll? It seems that everyone now needs them to > do Artifical Intelligence (all rise). Have they changed their attitude, > or is it like: "Here's your AI. Pay the monthly bill to retain your > licence to use it. Any attempt to try to find out what it does or > how it works will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law of > Connecticut."? > -- Keith > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as > "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/K35PA… > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as > "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/BUVOG…

1 year, 4 months

Re: Reminder: WLUG Meeting tonight: Topic ProxMox / Turning Pi 2

by Keith Wright

John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > And does anyone have pointers to the Image generating stuff we talked > about? It wiould be fun to try it out myself and for $10 I could get > alot of fun. That wasn't a motion, but I second it anyway. From the viewpoint of a jit.si watcher, that was one of the most fun demos of a program I have seen at a WLUG over the decades. But eye-candy aside, I was most interested that the demonstrator claimed to understand how it works and to have some links. The meaning of words changes over time. More change in less time now. A cartoon generating program is called "artificial intelligence". I can't draw cartoons, so I must not be intelligent. The words "machine learning" were used. As I said Thursday, I did my dissertation on machine learning. At that time, it meant a computer (with appropriate programming) would input a sequence of examples, each marked as in or not in a certain class. The computer would then (we hoped) be able to correctly classify examples that had not been explicitly shown before. I didn't see anything like that in the demo. It was said to be based on a "neural net", but neural nets have been around since Minsky started inventing words back in the fifties. What changed to make neural networks suddenly start working? -- Keith

1 year, 8 months

Re: [Wlug] WLUG Meeting March 10th 2016!

by Frank Sweetser

Sure, I can throw some slides together! On March 7, 2016 9:32:04 PM EST, Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hey Gang, > >I put a shout out for topic ideas and got crickets... If Frank would be >gracious enough to do a talk bout RPZ security features in bind (even >if >it's a short one) that would be great. > >Then I figure we can do a round table and talk about the new Raspberry >Pi >3, competitors to the Pi, SQL server for Linux?!?!, ZFS on in ubuntu >16.10, >linux gaming, etc. > >If there's something that someone's interested in talking about, reply >to >the list and we'll round table it as well... lots of times this turns >into >a topic. Someone (maybe Chuck) mentioned something about Flask... > >Afterwards we'll head to Tech Pizza (and if it's warm enough maybe >Wooberry!) and keep the conversation going. > >I'd like to apologize for dropping the ball a bit lately, life's gotten >hectic. I'm going to start working on getting some speakers lined up. > >Thanks, >Tim. >-- >I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >constituents as "consumers". > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

9 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] Color matching scanned photos vs. printed output

by Andy Stewart

On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:39 pm, Skip Gaede wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I have just discovered that the GIMP can work with color profiles. > See http://www.coloraid.de/, which was referenced at > http://www.normankoren.com/color_management_3.html > > Norman Koren has a web site that discusses a lot of aspects of > digital darkroom. To calibrate things, you need a printed color > chart, an example of which is the IT8 target. I have seen them > sold by Praxisoft for $70.00, but you can get the same chart from > Germany for $10.00 US + $5.00 S&H. Check out SCARSE which is a > Linux program for scanner profiles. Hi gang, Thanks for the additional info. I'll take a look at this info shortly. I've also found some information in "Grokking the GIMP" with regard to how to use some features of the GIMP to enhance scanned images. This was most helpful when I discovered that scanning images from a magazine or calendar (printed material) caused a speckling effect to appear in the resulting image. The GIMP has a despeckling filter that removes this rather well in many cases. This entire topic has me wondering if a detailed examination of the features of the GIMP might be a good discussion for a future meeting. There seems to be much more there than originally meets the eye. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

22 years, 9 months

Re: [Wlug] Linux Sparc Boxes - freebie and selling

by A. Perry

John, I can't make it to tonight's WLUG meeting. However, I'd like to buy two of these (@ $40 each) if we can make other arrangements for pickup. Depending on where you live (or work), I can probably come by your house (or workplace) sometime in the next week or so. Thanks, Andrew Perry >Guys, > >I've got some Sparc Classics with RH 6.1 pre-installed. Mostly they >have 1-2gb disks with 32-64mb of RAM, builtin ethernet, SCSI, video. >I've also got keyboards and mice to go with each one. > >I'd like to get rid of these from the garage finally. So I'll be >raffling off one tonight at the meeting, and I'll bring others for >those who want to pay $40 one. I think I have 8 for sale, maybe >more, maybe less. I'll give you money back if it doesn't work out of >the box. > >These suckers make nice home servers, and it's easy to addon extra >storage, etc. They all worked just fine when booted and installed >over the network not too long ago. > >Sorry for the late notice, and if I have any left over afterwards, >I'll bring em back next time as well. > >Please send requests to 'john(a)stoffel.org'. > >Thanks, >John > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

24 years, 2 months

Greetings

by madserge＠pm.me

Hello, My name is Forrest I am a gamer and a Linux enthusiast that mainly uses a Arch Based distro called Manjaro. My friend reached out to the group for me and then emailed and told me about it so I thought I would create a account and introduce myself. I would also like to say my level of understanding is probably more on the beginners level of things and have been learning slowly and would like to learn more about other things like raspberry pis and servers since I recently obtained a server from a family members work because they upgraded, I will also leave specs of the two custom built computers I own and the name of the server I have down below, I look forward to meeting you all next meeting. Sincerely, Forrest Server: Dell PowerEdge 2950 (Minimal Manjaro XFCE Installed) Raid Slots 6 Hard Disk Drives 6 (2 146GB 10K RPM, 4 600GB 15K RPM) That's all I know atm Custom PC's: Current Rig Case: NZXT H440 (EnVyUs Edition) Mobo: ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 (11GB GDDR5X) CPU: Intel i7 7700K Quad Core 4.2 GHz (No Overclock) RAM: 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 HDD: 2TB FireCuda (SSHD) + 2TB FireCuda (SSHD) + 250GB Samsung 850 EVO (SSD) + 1TB Crucial M.2 NVMe SSD OS: Windows 10 Pro / Manjaro KDE Other Rig Case: NZXT H440 Mobo: Asrock Z75 Pro3 GPU: EVGA GTX 980Ti Hybrid (6GB GDDR5) CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 Quad Core 3.4 GHz (Overclocked to 4GHz) RAM: 16 GB DDR3 1600 HDD: 2TB (7200RPM HDD) + 128GB (SSD) OS: Windows 10 Pro 64Bit

5 years, 7 months

Re: Reminder: Virtual Meeting today at 7PM Topic: Emacs awesomeness.

by gmcaplan＠gmcaplan.org

I was hoping to attend, but it looks like I will not be able to. I hope it will be recorded because I, too, would like to learn about emacs. Also, I have two questions: 1. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. When I update to ver. 20 or 22, I would prefer to do a "clean" re-install, but I have a question. Does that mean I must get a list of all my installed software and re-install them one at a time after I upgrade the OS? If so, is there an easy way for me to get the list? 2. I have been learning to use the software language R. I have a couple of questions and I would like to hear from anyone who has R experience. Thank You. George Caplan email: gmcaplan(a)gmcaplan.org On 2022-01-13 1:12 pm, Michael Voorhis via WLUG wrote: > On 1/13/22 12:58, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: >> Today he's going to show off some of his emacs foo. > > Will the talk be recorded? I'd love to hear the talk but can't attend > because of a conflict. > > --MCV. > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/D2QDC…

3 years, 9 months

Re: [Wlug] Oct 24, 2002: Install Fest !

by Wes Allen

anyone want to help me with that ipaq install then? WEs On Thursday 26 September 2002 9:18 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > HI Everybody, > > I have reserved the HIggins Labs discovery classroom (HL218?) for our > upcoming install fest! This is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 24, which is > the night which was scheduled for our next WLUG meeting. I thought that > the first week of B term would work out well for the WPI undergraduates. > In place of the meeting, we'll have the install fest from 6:30 - 9:30 PM > (yes, the time is earlier for this occasion). I will update the website > shortly. > > If you know people who are interested in having us help them with a Linux > installation, please ask them to send me an e-mail so I can keep track. We > can probably accomodate folks who want us to configure something but I'd > like to give priority to installations. Voyeurs are most welcome to watch > and learn! > > Would somebody from WPILA please post this information on some appropriate > WPI newsgroups, bulletin boards, and the like? I'd like to give priority > to WPI students and allow "outsiders" if we have enough space. Remember, > we have another install fest in February which is open to everybody. > > WLUG / WPILA Linux Install Fest > Date: Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002 > Time: 6:30 - 9:30 PM > E-mail: andystewart(a)attbi.com > > Later, > > Andy

23 years, 1 month

Re: Dec meeting.. not the 14th! 21st or 28th?

by Chuck Anderson

On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 09:08:00PM -0500, Doug Mildram via WLUG wrote: > So, maybe or maybe not, that's the kind of VPN I suspect they're selling, > but I don't see the value for normal folks....or maybe anyone. (educate > me!) > Unless their hosted-server-world-route network security is a win. > Thanks for listening, and my thursday's look better than usual this month, > so hoping for WLUG virtually dec 14. -doug Yes. Those "modern" VPNs are used for many reasons. Here are a couple: - To appear to servers/services that you are physically located in a different geographical area. This can help you bypass geographically restricted content, such as watching sports programs that content owners don't want you to see based on where you live (local sports broadcast blackouts). Or trick hotels into giving you a better price--yes, hotels can hike the rates they present to you if they think you are nearby--assuming you need last-minute accomodations while you are away on vacation. - To hide your real IP address from servers and/or hide your browsing from intermediaries (your ISP for example) for privacy. This could be so you can avoid being tracked and having your browsing habits sold to advertisers (something your ISP can easily do--SSL does not hide DNS queries although that is changing with the availability of DNS-over-HTTPS and similar), to hide from authorities/copyright enforcers, or for life-and-death reasons (hide from unfriendly governments.)

1 year, 10 months

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