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MEETING NOTICE
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Central Ohio Linux Users Group

Date: Wednesday, 28 January, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM local

Meeting Presentation
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Topic: Simple Email Security

This month we will look at some simple ways to protect your email.  This
should be considered a follow-up to the October 2003 meeting introducing
the Postfix MTA.

First we will protect Postfix SMTP traffic with TLS (Transport Layer
Security), encrypting email in transit when available.  This will include
a brief discussion (ripped verbatim from the Postfix+TLS website!) of key
management and being your own Certificate Authority.

Members are encouraged to share and discuss TLS extensions to their
favorite MTA (Sendmail, Exim, qmail, other)!

Josh Glover will then introduce us to GPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, for
digitally signing and encrypting email.  We'll learn about private and
public keys, how to use them, and how to keep them safe.  If enough people
are interested, we'll have a key signing party!

Members are encouraged to share and discuss GPG integration with their
favorite MUA (mutt, pine, Mozilla, Evolution, KMail, other)!

Links:
http://www.postfix.org/
http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/
http://www.gnupg.org/
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html

The upcoming meeting is open to the general public, and all with an
interest in Free Software, Open Source, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, postfix,
Linux, BSD, Unix, Windows, or whatever, are invited.
Well ...  maybe not Windows, except those in recovery ...


MEETING SITE:
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The January 2004 meeting will be held at:
   OCSEA
   390 Worthington Rd.
   Westerville, OH 43082
   865-4700

   Directions: http://www.colug.net/maps/ocsea.php

...The group has met on the LAST Wednesday or LAST Saturday of a month,
alternating by month to allow more folks to mesh their schedules with
COLUG's. Sites and dates also depend on facility availabity, with
common-sense relocation in the holiday season.

The webpage often has a link to a map to the upcoming meeting site. 
See: http://www.colug.net/meetings.php
The website is always authoritative to other discussions, 
such as might be seen on the mailing list.

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Send administrative mail to: colugx@colug.net with any questions.

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-- Phil Hunter
   hunter@owlriver.com 
   Owl River Company
      "The World is Open to Linux (tm)"
         ... Open Source LINUX solutions ...


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