[Rustington] Portsmouth LUG BaB meeting on Saturday 16th May 13:00 to 18:00

[Lisi Reisz]

The next Portsmouth LUG meeting will be at the Broadoaks Sports and Social 
Club on Saturday 16th May from 13:00 to 18:00.

You are all cordially invited.  Do come.  If you haven't been before, we are a 
friendly bunch and would love to see you. 

Full venue details here:
http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html

It is a bring-a-box meeting, so bring a 'box', bring a notebook, 
bring anything that might run Linux, or just bring yourself and enjoy 
socialising/learning/teaching or simply chilling out!

Gareth Owen  will talk to us about Cryptography and Linux.  Gareth teaches and 
undertakes research into Cryptography and Digital Forensics at the University 
of Portsmouth.  There is an abstract of his talk below.  Note that he says  
to bring a box if you can with your favourite flavour of Linux because 
there'll be an opportunity to have a go.  Some of you will remember his 
gripping talk about the dark web.  He is a speaker who is well worth hearing.

To suit Gareth, the talk will begin earlier than usual at 14:00, so most of 
our Linuxy activities will have to be after the talk.  I have promised to try 
and help someone understand the Debian apt system and its repositories.  Any 
other requests for help, or specific offers?

I shall try to be there at about 12:15.  

See you there,
Lisi

Abstract of Gareth's talk
This talk is divided into two parts.  In the first part we'll talk about
how modern ciphers work and how we use them to create something that's
secure. In the second part of the talk we'll discuss how to do cryptography
on Linux from encrypting your hard disk to sending an encrypted e-mail.
There are lots of ways to do this and I'll aim to cover the key points so
that you can choose the best approach that suits you - if you can, bring
your laptop with your favourite flavour of Linux because there'll be a
opportunity to have a go.

I'm also happy to do a general cryptography Q&A at the end of the talk and
answer anything that I have expertise in - so please bring any questions.
Perhaps you're wondering whether Truecrypt is still secure despite their
vanishing act or how the Police tackle encrypted data?