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FYI<br>
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<td>Re: [kw-pm] CAcert talk, May 19th</td>
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<td>Sat, 14 May 2011 15:43:52 -0400</td>
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<td>Daniel Allen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dada.da@gmail.com"><dada.da@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kw-pm@pm.org">kw-pm@pm.org</a></td>
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A reminder about our meeting on Thursday the 19th of May, for
anyone interested in SSL certificates based on webs-of-trust! <br>
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<p>Please note location change to MC 5158 (a larger room). See
below for all the details.<br>
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<p><b>ABOUT CACERT</b>
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<p>
tl;dr version: <em>Free two-year renewable SSL server
certificates!</em>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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
moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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.
</li>
</ul>
<p> It's important to get a good network of trust built up. The
more people
you have who have assured your identity the better. </p>
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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
moz-do-not-send="true"
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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