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A reminder about a meeting on Thursday the 19th of May, for people interested in SSL certificates based on webs-of-trust! (Apologies for the HTML email; please see <a href="http://kw.pm.org">http://kw.pm.org</a> if you can't read the below in your email reader).</p>
<p>The location has changed since Behan made his announcement on the 2nd. We've reserved a larger room. See below for all the details.<br></p><p><b></b></p><p><b>ABOUT CACERT</b>
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tl;dr version: <em>Free two-year renewable SSL server certificates!</em>
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<a href="http://www.cacert.org/">CAcert</a> is an alternative to the commercial certificate authorities (CAs),
allowing users to create free SSL certificates signed by a trusted CA.
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We plan to have an Assurance event
at our May <a href="http://kw.pm">kw.pm</a> meeting, Thursday the 19th of May. Come out, learn
about CAcert, and we expect that we'll have enough "assurers" present to
get you started (able to make certificates; and build the web of trust
by assuring others).
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<b>To Participate at the Meeting</b>
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To receive assurance points at the meeting, please visit <a href="http://www.cacert.org/">CAcert.org</a>
and make yourself an account, tied to an email address you will use to
receive assurances at the meeting. Also please bring two forms of
government issued photo ID; such as provincial health card, passport,
driver's licence, etc. (Your ID will just be reviewed, not recorded).
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Optionally, bring a laptop and you can follow along to install the
CAcert root certificates in your browsers, and log into CAcert.org to
review your status along the way to being an assurer.
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Put your name on the <a href="http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?PizzaList">PizzaList</a> for free pizza (sponsored by an anonymous rotating donor).
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<b>The Local Network of Trust</b>
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>From the <a href="http://wiki.cacert.org/AssuranceHandbook2#Some_more_information_on_CAcert">CAcert Assurance Handbook</a>:
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<ul><li>CAcert separates assurance (confirmation of identity) from the
issuing of the certificates. Thereby the identity only has to be
confirmed once to make as many certificates as needed and whenever
wanted.
</li><li>CAcert is a "non-profit" community of volunteers. It is independent from commercial CAs.
</li><li>Some CAs issue free certs, and some use a Web of Trust, but
they tend to only issue low-level client certificates, but no server
certificates or strongly verified certs. These free certs are intended
to drive you to their CA so they can sell you higher value products.
There is nothing wrong with that (your supermarket does the same
thing) but it might not be appropriate to your needs.
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It's important to get a good network of trust built up. The more people
you have who have assured your identity the better.
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The Kitchener/Waterloo area has only a few registered assurers. At this
meeting, we can at least double the number of assurers, putting us
roughly on par with Toronto's count of assurers!... And thereby growing
the global web-of-trust.
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<b>Location</b>
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This meeting will be held in MC 5158, in the Math Building. <a href="http://kw.pm.org/maps/finding-math-building.png">Here's a map</a>.
If you're driving, the recommended parking is in Lot N, $3
pay-and-display. From Lot N, it's a short walk along the Ring Road to DC
then a right onto the service road to MC. (There is construction
blocking some paths on campus, marked as hard-hats on the map above).
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Hope to see you on Thursday the 19th!
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</div><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Behan Webster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behanw@websterwood.com">behanw@websterwood.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><a href="http://kw.pm.org" target="_blank">http://kw.pm.org</a><div><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Times; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Times; font-weight: bold;">Thursday, May 19, 2011</span><br>
</div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><p>Elbie will speak on <a href="http://www.cacert.org/" style="color: rgb(136, 34, 34); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">CAcert.org</a>, a web-of-trust alternative to the commercial SSL Certificate Authorities. Net benefit: free SSL server certificates!</p>
<p>Please register for a cacert account in advance of the meeting, and we will walk you through the rest. (We are bringing in guest certifiers to make this possible). See <a href="http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?CAcertMeetingDetails" style="color: rgb(255, 136, 136); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">CAcertMeetingDetails</a>.</p>
<p><span><div><p><b>When?</b></p><p>We meet on the third Thursday of the month, unless noted otherwise on our mailing list and on the front page of this site. Meetings go from 7 to 9pm or so.</p><p><b>Where?</b></p><p>In Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario; most often at the University of Waterloo, in the Davis Centre room 3323; sometimes, at various pubs in the Uptown Waterloo area. Read on for specifics.</p>
<p><b>Where at the University of Waterloo?</b></p><p>Davis Centre is on <a href="http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/map.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(221, 102, 68);" target="_blank">this map</a>. The closest legal parking is 'N' lot to the North.</p>
<p>Davis Centre Room 3323:</p><p>From the Ring Road entrance of Davis Centre: Go up two flights of stairs from the ground floor. You'll be facing south. Turn around, and head toward the north-most cross corridor. 3323 is toward the western end of the corridor (toward the math building). It's probably a good idea to check one of the many wall maps for an exact location.</p>
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