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Re: UPDATED: ANNOUNCE: Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting, Jan.16th
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raph Levien)
Fri Jan 15 18:54:38 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:45:39 -0800
From: Raph Levien <raph@acm.org>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks-announce@toad.com, coderpunks@toad.com
Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> The Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting will be held Saturday January 16th, 12-6pm
> at the San Jose Convention Center, Room B1-B2. This is the Saturday
> just before the RSA Convention. http://www.rsa.com/conf99/
A quick note - if it's possible, bring a printed PGP5 or GPG key
fingerprint, to be exchanged with other cypherpunks for peer
certification.
This is stuff I'm working on for my PhD dissertation. I've been
exploring trust metrics and have come up with some interesting results.
Basically, trust metrics in and of themselves are inadequate for a real
public key infrastructure. However, I believe that trust metrics have
life in them yet.
In particular, trust metrics can be used to determine membership in
peer-certified groups with a high degree of resistance to attacks. I'm
at the point now where I want to put my ideas into practice. The next
step is building a webpage for people to register their keys and post
their peer certificates. I figure it would be appropriate if the first
test group was the cypherpunks.
I'll post more details and an invitation for all cypherpunks to register
when I get the page up. In the meantime, I think it's possible to get
some interesting results with a minimum of effort right now.
Sorry for spamming the announcement lists - I just wanted to make sure
the message got out there.
Raph
