Tutorial: Using GNU Privacy Guard

Announcing another great UPE tutorial!
This tutorial will be run by David Vanhorn on using GNU Privacy Guard.

Date: Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Location: 229 Votey (the linux lab on the second floor)

Don't miss this informative and useful tutorial.
Here are the details:

title: Using GNU Privacy Guard

Exercise your right to privacy.  Use encryption!

This tutorial will introduce the Open-PGP public-key encryption scheme
and it's use.  Specifically, we will cover using Open-PGP software,
namely GNU's implementation, GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org/).  Open-PGP
software uses a combination of strong public-key and symmetric
cryptography to provide security services for electronic
communications and data storage.

The tutorial will cover:

    *  An introduction to public key cryptography.
    *  Creating your own key pair.
    *  Finding, exporting and importing key pairs from key servers.
    *  Signing digital documents.
    *  Using encrypted communication.

No prior knowledge of public key cryptography is required.  A basic
familiarity with UNIX is assumed, such as the ability to edit files
and use command line programs.  An EMBA account is required, although
with prior notice guest accounts can be made available.