SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)
General Info:
DATE: Saturday 15 January 2000
TIME: 12:00-5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE: San Jose Convention Center (downtown San Jose, California)
Heads-Up for January!
"Who do you Trust?"
The January 2000 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Cypherpunks
will precede the RSA Data Security Conference and concern itself with
"Trust and Identity."
The meeting will be on January 15th, the Third Saturday in January,
instead of the usual Second Saturday. By aligning our meeting with the
RSA Data Security Conference in San Jose the following day/week
(registration starts on 16 Jan), many of the usual cypherpunk suspects
from around the planet will be in town and able to attend.
As always, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil and members of the
Public are encouraged to attend.
Cypherpunk meetings are your meetings: agenda items come from YOU!
Send your last-minute agenda request to the meeting organizers
(Dave Del Torto & Bill Stewart), by sending email
To: <sfbay-cpunks-announce-admin@cryptorights.org>
Subject: 2000-01-15 agenda request
Please include a few brief (English) sentences describing your topic, and
the amount of time you need (e.g. 5/15/30 minutes). If we can still fit
your item in, we will.
Meeting Time:
The informal pre-meeting get-together begins around 12:00 Noon. We'll start
the actual meeting at 12:30 PM and go until around 5:00 PM (or later,
depending on how late Security lets us stay).
The meeting is normally followed by a group dinner somewhere nearby from
6:00-8:00 PM (attendance optional). There's also an evening party in Palo
Alto (meeting attendees will learn the details).
Meeting Agenda:
"Our agenda is a widely-held secret."
12:00-12:30 PM — Hang out, consume food, obtain caffeinated beverages.
12:30-5:00 PM — Sessions:
General: general "Cypherpunk Work-in-Progress" & Issues session:
Lucky Green:
The DVD "encryption" reverse-engineering case (DeCSS & EFF vs DVDCCA & MPAA
<http://cryptome.org/dvd-order.htm>
NOTE: The DVD-CCA v. The World Preliminary Injunction hearing will be
held in Santa Clara Superior Court, Department 2, San Jose, California on
Tuesday 18 Jan 2000 at 1:30 pm
Santa Clara Main Court House
191 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95113 (408) 299-2074
Directions (both map and text) are at:
http://claraweb.co.santa-clara.ca.us/sct/pages/directions.html
Dave Del Torto:
1. A brief Web of Trust analysis of CDnow's secure website orders using PGP keys
<http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q>
<pgp-users-thread-12439@joshua.rivertown.net>
2. New IETF OpenPGP working group "OP/MIME" (OpenPGP/MIME) & Multiple Parallel Signatures drafts.
Bill Scannell:
The State of the Internet in Syria and Lebanon at the Millennium. (BYOKafír)
Alan James Lansing:
The "DFFF 2000" Award Presentation from the Secret Order of Former Primes
Trust & Validity Management:
Matt Blaze (AT&T Research):
New and exciting developments in trust management
Raph Levien (Art Of Code):
Attack-resistant trust metrics for large scale authentication
Identity Management:
Austin Hill (Zero Knowledge Systems)
Ian Goldberg (Zero Knowledge Systems)
Adam Shostack (Zero Knowledge Systems):
Freedom v1.0:
An overview of issues, tradeoffs & future plans (followed by Q&A grilling & BBQ-sauce taste test)
<http://www.freedom.net/>
Public Key Management (PKI):
Greg Broiles & Dave Del Torto
PGP Keysigning
1. Key owners should ensure their keys are on the Surfnet keyserver.
2. Send your primary PGP key information before Noon (Zulu -8) on
Fri 2000-01-14) to sfbay-cpunks-announce-admin@cryptorights.org
In the message Body, include: your primary key's Keyid, Userid, Size, hexadecimal
Fingerprint and optionally the keying material (in an ASCII-armored PGP Public Key Block).
Example:
0x28C029AF
Dave Del Torto <ddt@cryptorights.org>
4096
9B29 031D 70DE F566 E076 B108 904D FEA3 28C0 29AF
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
[optional keying material not shown in this example]
Be sure to bring friends to attest to your identity and/or two (2)
forms of photoID to the meeting. Also, if you are a Thawte Notary,
please be prepared.
After the Keysigning, the full key listing of keys submitted before the
keysigning will be available with a checkable PGP hash in HTML comments.
6:00 PM: Dinner at a nearby restaurant usually follows the meeting.
Location Info:
The January meeting will be held in the San Jose Convention Center,
the same building as the RSA Data Security Conference.
Very special thanks to Peter Trei and Sandra LaPedis, both of RSA Inc,
for providing us with a meeting space during the conference setup day.
Meeting attendees are reminded that the conference organizers are
trying to main building security and that the building will also be
full of setup activity even while we're meeting and that we should
be respectful of the workers doing their setup jobs by staying out
of their way as much as possible.
Meeting Room:
Room A3 on the Concourse Level
(Second Floor, left hand side hallway: look for our spoor)
There will be theatre-style seating and a screen and projector,
stage and podium for speakers and presenters.
NOTE: some cypherpunks will be on 434.000 if you have a portable radio.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We need cypherpunk volunteers at the front door of the
SJCC (to hand out name-tags and help people find their way in) as well
as at the Hallway A entrance to direct people to the appropriate room.
See Bill Stewart when you arrive if you can help with this.
Directions:
FREEWAY 101 South
TAKE Guadeloupe Pkwy (87) South (this runs a long way)
TAKE Park Avenue Ramp toward San Carlos St
LEFT on Park Ave
RIGHT on S. Almaden, then optionally Left on W. San Carlos
HUNT for parking.
Parking: in the SJCC parking lot$, or at any outdoor lot$ nearby.
Location Map(s):
San Jose Convention Center:
http://www.mapblast.com/yt.hm?FAM=mapblast&CMD=GEO&SEC=find&W=640&H=400&IC=0%3A0%3A5&IC%3A=Convention+Center&AD2=150+West+San+Carlos&AD3=San+Jose%2C+CA
Here are the building maps — find Room A3.
Portrait: http://idiom.com/~wcs/sjcc.gif
Landscape: http://idiom.com/~wcs/sjccls.gif
Additional Meeting Notes:
See <http://freedomfighter.net/cypherpunks/2000/0212.html> for information on participating in next month's meeting (Feb 2000).