Today is 23/10/2003 The WLUG meeting is on Monday, 4 days away CraigBox's Birthday! The topic will be "Giving Craig Gifts and Adoration", by order of the WLUG Secretary! And the subtopic Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Linux. Suggested synopsis (please add to me) * Why viruses in Linux (and almost any other non-MS operating system) are not currently an issue, and are unlikely to ever become one. + http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33226.html * getting your LinuxRouterBox to run Exim, Amavis, SpamAssassin, Razor and ClamAV (CraigBox/GreigMcGill) + MailScanner * BayesianFiltering in Mozilla (DanielLawson/PerryLorier?) * plugging SpamAssassin into Evolution (anyone?) + [link] http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/evoluti on.html + [link] http://www.atlantawebhost.com/articles/evolution_spamassassin .php + bogofilter & marking msgs spam/ham: [link] http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva/bogo-and-evo/ + .forward/.procmail: [link] http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-March/ 028045.html + Ximian's answer + http://krath.dk/linux/evolution_spamfilter/ * plugging SpamAssassin into KMail + [link] http://support.real-time.com/open-source/spamassassin/kmail.h tml + http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html * possible use of DNS to stop spam at the SMTP level - eg http://spf.pobox.com/, Reverse MX, or RR records (see http://www.irtf.org/asrg/survey_of_proposals.htm) * Virus scanning of cached web pages through the use of Squid, DansGuardian, and MailScanner (GerwinVanDeSteeg) _________________________________________________________________
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Today is 23/10/2003 The WLUG meeting is on Monday, 4 days away
Hi everyone, the meetings are a good time to do some pgp / gpg key signing. For those who don't know what pgp is, it is a method for encrypting and signing files, to prove they are from you - it is particularly suited for email, to mathematically prove mail with your name on it is actually from you. A good reason to do this is because you can't trust the headers in an email - viruses and spam routinely fake the From: address. This ties in nicely with the meeting topic this month. If a message that claims to be from me has an attached signature, you can use it to see if it really is from me. (For example, This message has a signature that your mail client will ignore if it doesn't understand it). See http://www.wlug.org.nz/WhySignEmail for more reasons, and http://www.wlug.org.nz/GPGMailClients for mail clients that support using encryption and signatures. If you don't have a key, but want to start using one, follow the notes on the http://www.wlug.org.nz/GPG/PGPNotes page, and please tell us if the page is too hard to follow - you can always edit the page to leave a message, or to change it yourself! This page gives an introduction to what it is, how it works, and step-by-step instructions for getting set up. Anyway, anyone who has a key and wants to get it signed by others should email me (don't reply to the list) with their name and key ID or key fingerprint in the next few days, and I'll make up some sheets. Please bring some ID to the meeting, preferably 2 forms, with at least one photo ID, so everyone can verify the key belongs to you. John McPherson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 00:18, John R. McPherson wrote:
See http://www.wlug.org.nz/WhySignEmail for more reasons, and http://www.wlug.org.nz/GPGMailClients for mail clients that support using encryption and signatures.
If you don't have a key, but want to start using one, follow the notes on the http://www.wlug.org.nz/GPG/PGPNotes page, and please tell us if the page is too hard to follow - you can always edit the page to leave a message, or to change it yourself! This page gives an introduction to what it is, how it works, and step-by-step instructions for getting set up. Its a good idea after that to, if you're not too paranoid, to back up your personal key somewhere. Either make a copy of your .gnupg folder, or print out an amored version of your key (gpg --amour --export-key keyid [i think?]) and lock it in a safe somewhere. That way, if you delete your .gnupg folder by accident (whistles innocently) you can restore it.
Alastair -- (o< - A l a s t a i r P o r t e r //\ V_/_ alastair(a)linuxexperience.com
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 05:59, Alastair Porter wrote:
(gpg --amour --export-key keyid [i think?]) I should have looked it up... $ gpg --armor --export keyid > file -- (o< - A l a s t a i r P o r t e r //\ V_/_ alastair(a)linuxexperience.com
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