Irvine Underground meeting was held October 7th 2005, 8PM at Extreme Pizza.
Irvine Underground would like to thank the staff and owners of Extreme Pizza
for allowing us to meet at their establishment and stay open extended hours
for our use.
The highlight of the meeting was the 45 minute interview with Phil
Zimmerman, the creator of the popular PGP encryption program. Phil is
working on a new product called zFone which aims to be an encrypted VOIP
software phone.
The zFone will work in a similar way to the way that SSH works. On your
first connection to someone you will choose to trust their host key or not.
Once you've trusted it, you can trust all further communication with them
just as SSH works. Additionally, in the future you can double check what
the correct key is and retroactively know that your previous conversations
were not man-in-the-middle'd. The encryption is planned to be at the data
layer of the VOIP packets, which means that who you're calling will not be
hidden, just the contents of the conversation.
Most of the questions revolved around the technical side of the product as
well as his future plans and what sort of programmers he's looking for.
Download the interview.
The evenings presentation was setup by DaMan and the interview was directed
by Kallahar. Thank you to those who have supported the IVU raffles, because
of your generous support we were able to purchase new A/V hardware that made
it possible so we could present and archive the presentation.
