[RndTbl] MUUG Meeting, Oct 10, 7:30pm -- Public Key Infrastructure

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Tue Oct 3 14:50:39 CDT 2006


The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly
meeting on Tuesday, October 10.  The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:

   PKI: Public Key Infrastructure - What it can do for you

   This  month,  Adam Thompson will give us an introduction to public-key
   infrastructure. PKI is the technology that enables secure web browsing (SSL)
   and secure e-mail (S/MIME) - you might know what an SSL Certificate is, but
   did you know you can enable single-sign-on by running your own PKI? That you
   don't have to pay for expensive SSL certificates? That you can use PKI to
   secure password-less SSH authentication? The discussion will cover uses of
   SSL  certificates, and a high-level overview of the OpenSSL and OpenCA
   toolkits.

The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June.  (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.

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   Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave.
   (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to
   sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you
   (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, 
   so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may
   not get in.  (But don't come too early either, since security may not
   be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.)

   Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice
   Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also
   available nearby, at Portage Place, for $3.00 for the evening. Bicycle
   parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located
   behind the building on Webb Place.
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For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their
Web server:

		http://www.muug.mb.ca/

Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce"
and "roundtable".  If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you
to subscribe now:

        http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/

The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such
as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG
members.

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involved!

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Gilbert E. Detillieux		E-mail: <gedetil at muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group	Web:	http://www.muug.mb.ca/
PO Box 130 St-Boniface		Phone:  (204)474-8161
Winnipeg MB CANADA  R2H 3B4	Fax:    (204)474-7609


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