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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2004 MEETING
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1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2004 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, May 20th, 2004 (3rd Thursday)
Where: <<<< OUR NEW MEETING LOCATION >>>>
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street
South West Corner of Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
** RSVP Will No Longer Be Required for Entry! **
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: MIT KERBEROS 5: Introduction to Authentication and
Cross-platform Interoperability
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Speaker: Jeff Altman, President,
Secure Endpoints Inc.
INTRODUCTIONS:
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Kerberos provides secure login facilities for Unix, Linux and
Windows. Our speaker for this month's Kerberos meeting (and the
planned OpenAFS meeting) will be Jeff Altman. Unigroup members
will remember that Jeff is a past Unigroup speaker (of Kermit95
and Telnet Security Working Group fame). Jeff has been working
with a series of well known security related projects for many
years.
Unigroup has the following meetings planned over the next few
months:
- Solaris 10 Launch Event - Field Trip to Sun Microsystems
- OpenAFS - Jeff Altman (followup presentation)
- Zope / Web Development - Zope Corporation
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MIT Kerberos Version 5 is the basis for the Kerberos distributed
with Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Debian, MacOS X, OpenVMS,
and just about every other Kerberos distribution other than the
Heimdal distribution and the implementation built into Microsoft
Windows 2000 and subsequent releases. MIT is directly responsible
for three Kerberos products:
- MIT Kerberos 5 for Unix/Linux
- MIT Kerberos for Macintosh which is bundled with MacOS X
- MIT Kerberos for Windows
The current releases of MIT Kerberos 5 for Unix/Linux (1.3.3)
and KfW (2.6.1) are available from the MIT Kerberos web site:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
The MIT Kerberos 5 release 1.3.3 release fixes bugs and adds
one major feature:
- Support for AES in GSSAPI has been implemented. This
corresponds to the in-progress work in the IETF (CFX).
MIT Kerberos for Windows 2.6 release includes krb5 release
1.3.3 and provides enhanced integration with the Microsoft
Windows Kerberos implementation as well as OpenAFS for Windows.
In addition to developing the leading open source implementation
of Kerberos, the MIT Kerberos Development Group contributes more
than half of the document authors within the IETF Kerberos
Working Group. MIT's participation has been crucial to ensuring
that all of the major implementations of Kerberos (including
Microsoft's) adhere to the published standards to facilitate
interoperability.
This talk will provide an introduction to the Kerberos 5
authentication protocol; a detailed overview of the MIT Kerberos
implementation; a discussion of interoperability concerns which
developers and administrators face when implementing and
deploying a multi-platform Kerberos infrastructure; and some
demonstrations utilizing the GSS on Linux, Windows, and Java.
Note:
If your organization would be interested in providing a grant
to further Kerberos development at MIT. Please contact
Marshall Vale, Team Leader, of The MIT Kerberos Team, at
krbcore@mit.edu.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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While RSVPs will _NOT_ be required for this location, please RSVP
if you know you are attending, or if there is a high probability
that you will be attending. This will help us determine the
correct amount of food and refreshments. Please RSVP by two days
prior to the meeting day (the food must be ordered in advance).
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your email for any
last minute announcements as the meeting approaches.
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Outline of the Main Presentation:
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In this talk, Jeffrey Altman, from Secure Endpoints Inc., will
discuss the Kerberos 5 trusted third party implementation.
The topics will include:
- Introduction to the Kerberos 5 Protocol and Why It Works.
- Overview of the MIT Kerberos 5 Implementation for
Unix/Linux/MacOS X and Microsoft Windows.
- Discussion of Cross Implementation Interoperability and
Single Sign-On (SSO).
- GSS API bindings (C, Java, and Microsoft's SSPI).
- IETF Kerberos Working Group Status Report.
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Web Resources:
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Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
The MIT Kerberos Team
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krbdev.html
The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
http://gost.isi.edu/info/kerberos/
Kerberos FAQ
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html
Step-by-Step Guide to Kerberos 5 Interoperability
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/security/kerbsteps.asp
(other Kerberos links are also on this page)
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Speaker Biography:
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Jeffrey Altman, is the President of Secure Endpoints Inc., and is
a long time open source developer and participant in the Internet
Engineering Task Force. Jeffrey's current projects and roles
include:
* MIT Kerberos. Core team member. http;//web.mit.edu/kerberos/
Contributor to the Kerberos 5 library and applications; and
lead developer of the Kerberos for Windows product.
* OpenAFS. Gatekeeper. http://www.openafs.org
Lead developer for the Windows port of OpenAFS client
and server.
* C-Kermit and Kermit 95. Contributing developer.
http://www.kermit-project.org
Kermit 95 Program author. Responsible for all security and
network protocol stack components.
* OpenSSL. Contributing developer. http://www.openssl.org
* Project JXTA. Director. http://www.jxta.org
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Company Biography:
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Secure Endpoints Inc. specializes in providing support and new
development for open source products on the Microsoft Windows
2000/XP/2003 family of products.
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Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Addison-Wesley also has a new end-user discount, available
through their User Group program. We will be announcing the
details at our next meeting!
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. many of these books are valued between $30 and $60)!
Novell has provided us with some SuSE Linux Distributions.
IBM has provided us with some IBM Tote Bags and Linux Penguins.
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Fee Schedule:
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
sandwiches such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
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Directions:
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
This building is located on the West side of the street. Cross
Streets: Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.
Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West
on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.
There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
and extending North for a number of blocks.
Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Kerberos - Jeff Altman - May 2004
- OpenAFS - Jeff Altman - Planned
- Solaris 10 - Launch Event - Field Trip to Sun Microsystems
- Zope / Web Page Development - Zope Corporation - Planned
- Unix/Linux/BSD and Wireless Communications/Security
- IPsec
- DNS
- Unix 30th Birthday Celebration
- iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies
- Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- Meetings on a variety of Sun/Solaris/Java topics
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics
should contact the Unigroup board at uniboard@unigroup.org.
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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Unigroup would like to thank IBM, and our speaker Bill Sandve, for his
presentation on "AIX / AIX5L Overview and Futures". Bill flew in
from Texas for this meeting and presented a broad history of AIX,
past, present and future. Unigroup members were briefed on various
IBM proprietary initiatives with AIX, which are not generally known
to the public. We also learned about specific areas where IBM is
focusing future AIX development, and various features in AIX which
will support the next generation of IBM Unix/Linux systems. We also
discussed the ways in which multiple instances of AIX and Linux can
co-exist together on a single hardware system.
We would also like to thank Dan Dantzic of the IBM Linux Center of
Competence, for hosting our Field trip to IBM, and Jim Gleason of the
IBM Linux Cluster Group (and NYLUG), for finding us this Field Trip
meeting location at IBM.
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4. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup
is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer
organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings
throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix
User Community. Unigroup is also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip Meetings on
the Even Months, although we will have the ability to hold monthly
meetings at our new downtown meeting location.
Planned meeting dates are: 5/20/2004, 6/17/2004, 7/15/2004...
Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
as well as "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
software vendors.
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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
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Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
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5. TRADE SHOWS
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CeBit 2004
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The CeBit Show is coming to the Javits Center in NYC on these dates:
Tue May 25 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wed May 26 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thu May 27 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
For more information, or for complimentary online registration, visit:
http://www.cebit-america.com
SIA Show - TMC2004 - Securities Industry Technology Management Conference
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The SIA Show is coming to the Hilton New York in NYC on these dates:
Tue Jun 8 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Wed Jun 9 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thu Jun 10 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
For more information, or for complimentary online registration, visit:
http://www.sia.com/tmc2004
*Please let us know about any local trade shows which may be of interest
to our membership, and are not listed above.
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist@unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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