Digital Freedom: By any means necessary. Austin Cypherpunks November Meeting November 13, 1993 3:00 pm 4th Floor Austin Public Library (800 Guadalupe St.) The Austin Cypherpunks chapter will be holding its November meeting on Saturday the 13th of November from 3 to 5 pm in a meeting room on the 4th floor of the downtown branch of the Austin Public Library. I have been told the room we will be using is "the first thing you see when you get off the elevator..." The theme of this meeting will be an introduction to PGP and public key cryptography in general. We will be explaining how PGP and other public-key cryptography systems work, and will go over some basic details regaring getting such software packages and how to properly use them. Bring your public-key on a disk of you have one, if not we will try to have a machine available for you to use to generate your own public-key. Additonal agenda items for this meeting include -Education/Information Disks The HoHoCon will be held in December in Austin and this should prove to be a good place for us to spread crypto technology and information about encryption in general. To this end we will be discussing possible files, programs, and news clippings to include in a disk of CryptoInfo and one of CryptoPrograms that we can distribute at conferences such as this. -TCP/IP Protocols and Encryption One possible project for us to consider is that of adding encryption to some of the most commonly used TCP/IP protocols (particularly those that otherwise broadcast account names and passwords in cleartext...) We will toss around a few ideas and see if this is something to try. -Digital Credit Union Project We will get up to date on this project and brainstorm some possible membership questions/ideas that we did not get around to at the last meeting. To subscribe to our full mailing list or our announcement-only mailing list, send mail to: listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu Put the line "subscribe austin-cypherpunks [real name or nym]" in the BODY of the message to subscribe to the full list and "subscribe austin-cypherpunks-announce [real name or nym]" in the body of the message to subscirbe to the announcements list. Our file archives are available in /pub/cypherpunks via anonymous ftp at: ftp.cc.utexas.edu Cypherpunks: There is safety in numbers... large primes. Local contacts for your questions...: Jim McCoy <mccoy@bongo.cc.utexas.edu> Doug Barnes <cman@io.com>