meeting uk cryptoprivacy association begin pgp signed message meeting of the uk cryptoprivacy association saturday may to be held at the offices of forest th floor grosvenor gardens london sw w dh this is located at the corner of hobart place a couple of blocks west of victoria station and almost directly across from the dark green cabbie shelter if you have trouble finding the place please call the office on or call me russell whitaker on my pager and leave an informative message with the telephone number where you can be reached i will return the call almost immediately discussion will range from the usual general topics such as the use of secure public key cryptosystems to protect message data to specific topics such as recent moves by the u s government to restrict choice in data privacy reference recent discussion on usenet groups e g sci crypt and alt security pgp all are invited particularly welcome are members of the newly formed uk community group the local eff in spirit if not in name folks those who plan to attend should email me and let me know please all attendees are requested to bring diskettes preferably ms dos with their pgp public keys as is usual at these gatherings several of us will bring our laptops and will sign public keys subject to the usual caveats reference the documentation for pgp specifically files pgpdoc doc and pgpdoc doc if you do not already have a copy of pgp ms dos and would like to have a copy of this public domain program please bring a formatted medium or high density inch floppy pc diskette you will be provided a copy of the program of course you might prefer to ftp a version of the program from one of the various archive sites i suggest trying demon internet systems which carries the full range of pgp phil zimmerman s pretty good privacy implementations directory pub pgp at gate demon co uk meetings are of indeterminate time those who are interested are invited to join the rest of us at a pseudorandomly determined pub afterwards please note in the past few months interested people have emailed me requesting faqs and special information mailings i regret that except in very unusual cases e g working press i cannot in a timely manner respond to these requests i will however and for the first time do a writeup of this meeting which i will post in various places what i am willing to supply is general information on our activities for the maintainers of existing faqs such as that for alt privacy faq maintainers can contact me at whitaker eternity demon co uk russell earl whitaker whitaker eternity demon co uk communications editor amix rwhitaker extropy the journal of transhumanist thought board member extropy institute exi pgp public key available
