[TriLUG] "TBA" Course Curriculum and Other Matters

James Olin Oden james.oden at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 11:03:33 EST 2008


Unfortunately, I will be out of town, otherwise I could volunteer for
this, but it would be good I think if some time was devoted
to writing clients and servers that use these certificates.   It would
be really cool if that was done for perhaps
three languages (Perl, Python and C).  Again, though I can't volunteer
as I'll be out of town.

Cheers...james

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Ron Young <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I would be very interested in attending for this topic.  I would like the
> approach to be for the inexperienced as I feel I am, especially for this
> subject.
> That said I would like to see the emphasis on practical setup and use after
> only a smidgen of intro and history.
>
> My 2 cents...
>
>
> Ron Young
> 919-621-9015
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:04:52PM -0500, Brian McCullough wrote:
>> > OK, so we have, at least tentatively, agreed on an "all day" course on
>> > Saturday, 3 January 2009,
>>
>>
>> I have suggested several different general and specific topics.  What do
>> people think is desirable and practical for such a tutorial or seminar?
>>
>>
>> Suggestions include:
>>
>>
>>  Web of Trust ( PGP-style and CA-style ( Thawte and CACert )),
>>  The History of Certificates,
>>  History of CACert and the Audit Process,
>>  How to Create and Use Certificates,
>>  The Implementation of your own private CA,
>>  The Role of the CACert Assurer,
>>  The Rights and Responsibilities of a CACert Community Member
>>  History of E-Mail and Web Certificates, Signatures and Encryption
>>  Definitions and other Trivia
>>  History of PGP and CAcert and How They Relate to Other CAs
>>  Theory of Webs Of Trust
>>  Theory of X.509 Certificates
>>  Practical use of PGP and X.509 Certificates
>>  Assuring party -- probably as part of the Lab, above.
>>
>>
>>  Obviously, covering all of these topics is impossible in the time
>>  available to us.
>>
>>
>>  Brian
>>
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