Hi Lisi
I look forward to being at the meeting.
Note Truecrypt has a fault in it which can be easily solved. The
location of the Disk FAT is known. The values for the Disk FAT are
known and so it is possible to use known text to work on decrypting the
truecrypt container. This is NSA stuff.
John Eayrs
On Mon, 4 May 2015 21:41:36 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@???> wrote:
> The next Portsmouth LUG meeting will be at the Broadoaks Sports and
> Social Club on Saturday 16th May from 13:00 to 18:00.
>
> Full venue details here:
> http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html
>
> Do come. If you haven't been before, we are a friendly bunch and
> would love to see you. All are welcome.
>
> 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?
>
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