Die metarheinmain chaosdays sind ein mehr oder weniger regelmäßiges Treffen einiger Chaostreffs des Rhein-Main Gebietes. Sie stehen natürlich auch anderen Chaoten und Interessierten offen.

Die metarheinmain chaosdays sind eine Veranstaltung für Interessierte im Bereich IT und inbesondere im Bereich IT-Sicherheit, die Wissenstransfer und interessante Bekanntschaften ermöglichen sollen. Die mrmcd101b - die fünften metarheinmain chaosdays (in binärer Schreibweise 101b) - sind eine Veranstaltung der Hochschulgruppe Chaos Darmstadt.

Wann?

Das erste Wochenende im September: 1.-3. September 2006 Beginn: Freitag 16 Uhr bis Sonntag 16 Uhr

Wo?

TU Darmstadt - Piloty Gebäude S2|02 Hochschulstrasse 10, in der Nähe des Alten Hauptgebäudes an der Alexanderstrasse D-64283 Darmstadt GPS: 49.879454 8.65551

Nähere Informationen sowie Anmeldung zum Event unter http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de

CACert Assurances werden auf der Keysigningparty stattfinden und ein Vortrag zum Thema CAcert wird es auch geben. Siehe hierzu im Fahrplan zum Event.

Robin H. Johnson will be doing a presentation on CACert, followed by assurances and GnuPG key-signing at BarCamp Vancouver, 2006/August/26.

See the event page at http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver to register and for further details.

SHA-1 has just been broken a bit more: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/77244
CAcert is aggressively moving to SHA-2 as we speak.

Microsoft will support SHA-2 only in Windows Vista according to our sources.
Debian Stable, FreeBSD and OSX don´t provide SHA-2 in their current versions.
SuSE, Knoppix, FC5, Ubuntu, Mandriva, … all support SHA-2 already.
Read more details about SHA-2 support of various applications and distributions on http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/HashInterop

Please contact your vendor to tell them that you need SHA-2 support!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA

The Linuxtage in Essen take place in the glass pavilion of the university of Duisburg-Essen on September 9th and 10th, 2006.
Saturday 10:00 — 18:00 clock and Sunday 10:00 — 4:00 p.m..
The glass pavilion (the red building) is between the building entrances R11 and R12 (on the site plan of the main campus Essen on the right edge). At the event there will be several Community stands, a topic park and papers as well as workshops.

CAcert also wants to take Place at this event and need help from Assurers and Users around Essen. Please see http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/come2linux for more information!

On Sunday August 13th there will be a CAcert certification event
in Berlin, Germany.  It will take place at the cafe/restaurant
“Yildiz” next to the subway station “Hallesches Tor”
from 11am to (at least) 2pm.  Certifications are free of cost
(as usual , and the brunch costs 6euros - flat rate.

Please do not forget to bring two items of identification
(eg an id-card, a driver’s license, or a passport).
if you intend to come then please “register” yourself on
the wiki page http://wiki.freitagsrunde.org/CAcert/Brunch
or simply send a mail to cacert@freitagsrunde.org - thanks!

The Coventry Linux User Group is searching for Assurers to help them grow CAcert in the UK. If you ever wanted to visit Coventry, or try to spread CAcert in a new area, here is your chance to do both at once! If you are interested, please contact support at CAcert dot org, we will get you in touch