KLUG Meeting Minutes and Agenda (#38) The 38th meeting of the Kingston Linux User Group was held Mon, Dec , 2001 at 7PM at RMC. The meeting lasted until about 10:30 PM. The attendees were: Antos, Andras Conrad-Avarmaa, Brigitte Drummond, Mark Hayes, Wayne Jezak, Edward Lott, Rodney Miller, George Mitton, Doug Nagy, Daniel Szafranski, Mike Wirth, Edwin C. Meeting Schedule (Tentative): 39 Tue, Jan. 8, 2002 - "Intro to Linux" 40 Tue. Feb 12, 2002 - "Installation HowTo" 41 Tue. Mar 12, 2002 - "System Administration I" 42 Tue. Apr. 9, 2002 - "System Administration II" Summary Of Activities: - Web page and domain - http://www.klug.on.ca/ - Hosted by Internet Kingston! (Thanks!) - We also have klug.ca registered but it is not yet activated. - Mailing List: Send an email with "subscribe klug-general" in the body to majordomo@klug.on.ca - or "subscribe klug-security" in the body to majordomo@klug.on.ca - Usenet Group - kingston.os.linux (General, not just KLUG) Agenda/Minutes: 1) Roll Call and Introductions (if required) - See attendees above. 2) This Meeting: There were 11 attendees to our 27th presentation "System & Network Security II" by Mark Drummond. We started the evening by discussing a few general topics, the first of which is a new meeting night for the 2002 year. We will now be holding meetings the second Tuesday of the month starting at 7pm. This is from a survey conducted on the mailing list. We also talked about trying a new meeting location, Marks new place of employment located at Gardiners Road and Taylor-Kidd Boulevard. We haven't yet set a date for trying this so follow the mailing list discussions and watch the web page for any changes. The third item was to arrange a dinner or social evening. There were several ideas but an exact time wasn't set. Watch the mailing list and web page for details. (Ed note: the dinner was held Thurs, Dec. 13 at McGinnis Landing on Bath Road at 8pm.) Mark then started the security discussion by explaining that network security involves "traffic on the wire". This security involves several issues including firewalls (stateful inspection and proxy), intrusion detection systems (snort.org), Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and portals (IPSEC and FressSwan) and then Secure Shell (SSH) and Encryption (GPG). We then continued on with the encryption topic by describing Public Key Encryption (asyncronous) and Secure Key Encryption (syncronous) and how SSH and VPN's use this to create secure connections by way of the internet. There was a lot of detail presented here and the various security How-To's can provide detailed instructions for the specific services you are trying to set up. Mark then spent the rest of the evening installing and demonstrating Gnu Privacy Guard (gpg) V1.0.6 from www.linuxmafia.org (a slackware archive site). The demonstration and discussion then showed how gpg allows for the digital signing of internet communications and provides a level of confidence in various digital correspondance. That wrapped up the evening and thanks to Mark and all who attended and participated. 3) Next Meeting: Tue, Jan. 8, 2002 - "Intro to Linux"