SF Bay Area Cypherpunks (80th Chairborne Regiment)
General Info:
DATE: Saturday 12 February 2000
TIME: 12:00-6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
PLACE: San Francisco Law Enforcement Regional Training Center
(San Francisco Police Academy)
Room 102 (or follow signs)
Heads-Up for February!
"Greetings, Mr. Jones: can we interest you in a lovely set of Encyclopaedias?"
The February 2000 Physical Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Cypherpunks
will feature a presentation on the newly-released book "Database Nation" by
author and privacy and cryptography activist Simson Garfinkle. Simson is
known to many cypherpunks as the author of the PGP book, and he is currently
involved in software and privacy technology development projects as well as
writing a weekly tech column for the Boston Globe newspaper.
We'll also discuss: Trust Management topics, the recent distributed denial
of service (DDoS) attacks on some major Internet e-commerce sites, elusive
characters in cypherpunkdom, the forthcoming Financial Cryptography conference
and "CPK," a revolutionary but unreviewed new cryptosystem.
As always, this is an Open Meeting on US Soil and members of the
Public are encouraged to attend.
Meeting Agenda:
12:00-1:00 — Informal gathering, share food & beverages.
1:00-2:00 — General Meeting:
"CPK" (David Liu)
--Presenting "CPK", a new PKC system using revolutionary
math not yet claimed to be secure pending formal
cryptanalysis. David will solicit co-authors and input
for a paper on CPK.
"ThawteCrimes" (Bill Scannell)
--A critical trust-analysis of Thawte's implementation
of the Web of Trust.
"CDnow?" (Dave Del Torto)
--A brief trust-analysis of CDnow's secure website
orders using a PGP key.
<http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q>
<pgp-users-thread-12439@joshua.rivertown.net>
--CryptoRights Foundation "virtual root" key generation discussion.
"Unicorn Hunting" (Sandy Sandfort)
--Sandy leads us on a hunt for Truth about the wild,
elusive Unicorn.
"I-D" (Kristen Tsolis)
--Intrusion detection mumble discussion mumble mumble,
possibly including mumble comments on the recent mumble
DDoS attacks and mumble CERT and CIAC mumble coordination.
"FC'00" (All)
--Financial Cryptography 2000 conference planning session.
<http://www.fc00.ai>
2:00-4:00 — "Database Nation"
--Simson Garfinkle (featured speaker)
The author will be discussing his new book on privacy and technology,
"Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century."
(Copies are now available at bookstores: a highly recommended read.)
4:00-4:30 — Q&A with Simson Garfinkle
4:30-5:00 — Keysigning (Greg Broiles, Dave Del Torto)
1. Key owners should ensure their keys are on the Surfnet keyserver.
2. Send your primary PGP key information before Midnight (Zulu -8) on
Fri 2000-02-11) to meetingpunks-admin@cryptorights.org
make the SUBJECT line "2000-02-12 key-submission".
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]
IMPORTANT: bring to the meeting: (1) your key property info (above),
(2) two forms of photoID, and (3) friends who can attest to your
identity.
After the Keysigning, the full key listing of keys submitted before the
keysigning will be made available. Any
keys submitted for last month's meeting will be printed out this month.
5:00-? — Dinner at a nearby restaurant usually follows the
meeting.
Location Info:
Meeting Area:
The meeting will be held in the main building of the San Francisco
Law Enforcement Regional Training Center (aka the SF Police
Academy), which is an old San Francisco public school building in
the Diamond Heights district (which is just south of the Twin Peaks
high point in the center of SF, and) not far from the "top" of the
Market Street grade's intersection with Portola and Burnett.
There is _ample_ parking available: once you pull into the Academy's
driveway, just park between any two lines that bracket your car's
width and don't have yellow stripes across them. If you want to buy
or bring munchies for yourself and/or others, the Safeway shopping
center (which includes a cafe or two with decent coffee) is a few
yards from the southeast corner of the Academy's parking lot (down a
flight of stairs).
Enter the main door under the large "San Francisco Law Enforcement
Regional Training Center" sign. You do NOT need to show ID, leave
money/blood or otherwise be Matrixed to park or attend the meeting
(this is an open meeting at an educational institution).
Meeting Room:
The meeting will be in Room 102, which is on the left just inside.
It holds a normal-sized group, but if lots of people show up, we'll
put up signs directing you to a larger room or into the Auditorium.
If you want to present anything at the last minute, the agenda is
fairly open (even though we have a couple of speakers), so come
early (12:30) and arrange for the RGB laptop projector, the video
setup or a blackboard so that you can give a rump talk.
Location Maps:
SF Police Academy (annotated with red traces).
<http://cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/maps/sfpd-acad.gif>
Door-to-door directions (to 350 Amber Drive San Francisco CA 94131)
can be obtained from Mapquest.
Directions:
1. From the South Peninsula via 280 North:
EXIT San Jose Ave
STAY on San Jose Ave
RIGHT on Rousseau Street
RIGHT on Bosworth at stop-sign
STAY on Bosworth
RIGHT on Elk Street
(GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North")
2. From the East Bay via Bay Bridge to SF:
80 West
101 South
EXIT 280 South
(GOTO "3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North")
3. From the South Peninsula via 101 North:
EXIT 280 South (toward Daly City)
EXIT Monterey Blvd
RIGHT at Stop LIGHT
GET (immediately) into Left LANE
LEFT at flashing amber light onto Diamond Street
LEFT at stop sign on Bosworth
RIGHT at second stop sign on Elk
(GOTO "4. Final Directions")
4. Final Directions:
Elk becomes Diamond (curve to right: see graphic map)
GO uphill on Diamond (curve to left)
PASS Safeway shopping center (N.B.:likely scene of post-mtg dinner)
LEFT on Duncan Street at stop sign
LEFT on Amber Drive (next left)
IMMEDIATE LEFT into Academy driveway
PARK in parking lot...
Additional Meeting Notes:
Next month: The March 2000 Cypherpunks Physical Meeting will be held on
11 March after the Financial Cryptography conference in Anguilla.
Meeting details and location will be discussed at the 12 Feb meeting above
and announced thereafter.
If you have questions, comment or agenda requests, please contact the
meeting organizers:
Dave Del Torto <ddt@cryptorights.org>
Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>