[I thought a month's notice on this (second) meeting would draw a little more interest. Our first meeting, 13 December 92, was a good start. -- Russell ;-) ] 2nd Meeting, Cypherpunks UK --------------------------- Chris Tame, of FOREST and the Libertarian Alliance, has generously offered the use of the meeting room at his offices for our gathering, Sunday, 10 January 1993, from 1300 onwards, at: FOREST 4th Floor 2 Grosvenor Gardens London SW1W 0DH 071-823-6550 This is just around the corner from Victoria Station, at the end of the mansion block near Hobart Place. There's a dark green cabbie shelter across the street from the entrance, and some British Telecom payphones. Can't miss it, really. However, if you have trouble, call the telephone number above, or call my pager, on 081-812-2661. If it helps, we're in the direction of Buckingham Palace, which is (very) partially visible from our windows. If you wish to attend, you should bring a 3.5" DOS-formatted diskette (sorry! My UN*X machine is an Intergraph workstation, and I can't use it for crypto) with a copy of your PGP 2.0+ public key. I'll sign it there. Mac users: if you don't have Apple File Exchange (what!?), I'll be extra nice and take your keys anyway ( ;-)) for AFE conversion on my IIcx. Not to fear. It might not be a bad idea to copy your public key on each of several diskettes, so you've got a copy to distribute to each of the others. Don't trust me to copy *your* key to others! As a matter of fact, as there are plenty of power points in the meeting room, you should bring your laptop, and/or a desktop PC: when someone hands you a disk-with-key, you can sign her key, and hand her back her diskette, with your own pubkey added. [Note to the novice: don't hand another person your secret key... the one named secring.pgp.] This should be a lively meeting. Among the topics likely to be discussed are: o The proliferation of PGP public keys in the U.K. o The local development of anonymous remailers and a proposed automatic public key repository at Demon Internet Systems o Electronic networking/email security for the novice o Pro-active proliferation of PGP 2.1+ to interesting European, African, and Asian sites - ftp placement - BBS distribution - sneakernet across borders o The use of HPACK in securing local file installations .. and much more! Mark Turner, from Demon Internet Systems, is likely to be on hand to demo DIS for non-DIS users. We've set up our own local, high-quality newsgroups: demon.security demon.security.keys and established the /pub/ibmpc/pgp archives on gate.demon.co.uk (expanding recently to include all versions of PGP, and "fellow traveller" files). Hope to see you there! Semper vigilans, Semper vigilans,