[kwlug-disc] Meeting for August

Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Sat Apr 30 22:25:33 EDT 2016


On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 08:16:03AM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:56:06AM -0400, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> > Would the group members be interested in a presentation covering
> > security-related topics (including privacy-enhancing technologies) ...
> > Encryption in general at the next meeting, or has that already been
> > decided ?
> 
> I would be interested in "SSL".  I have used MD5/SHAxxx message digest
> commands that are part of OpenSSL.  And, I do know SSH.  But, I'm
> hearing more and more about "SSL connection".  What does it mean?  How
> do I do it?  Short intro/tutorial would make manpage more meaningful.

One of Tim's first talks was on cryptography and SSL. It included a
walkthrough of handshaking a connection. There are some meeting slides
here: 

http://kwlug.org/node/820

That should not prohibit anybody from revisiting the topic (Tim's
presentation was five years ago). But if you are looking for some
auxiliary material then it exists. 

- Paul 

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