[ale] Michael Warfield's Encrypt This

[vernard at venger.net (Vernard Martin)]

Greg Freemyer wrote:

>I hope you do indeed start doing advanced topics on a semi-regular
>basis.  Even once a quarter would be good from my perspective.
>  
>
Its been a long time since I actually have been to an ALE meeting due to 
job obligatins. The past Central ALE meeting was the first one in over a 
year easily.  I thoroughly enjoyed Mike's talk as did many others.

The thing that I wanted to comment on was the concept of "advanced 
topics". I think that whetheror not something is advanced or not is 
really difficult to determine. I also contend that isn't all that 
important either. I personally don't consider encrypting filesystems an 
advanced topic. The basic premise can be explained fairly quickly The 
procedure to do so is a bit complicated. And moreso, making it more 
accessable someone that isn't very comfortable with the command line is 
a herculean task (which makes Mike's presentation even more impressive).

I think the thing that stood out the most in Mike's talk was the 
presentation itself.  I think that mike's presentatin was spot on with 
the level of depth, the level of clarity and the level of interest of 
the ALE group in general.  Assume that there are always some folks in 
the room that know nothing about what you are talking about. And assume 
that there are folks in the room that want to duplicate what you do.

Now obviously not everyone has as much experience doing public speaking 
as Mike and others but I think that if we aim at the proper target then 
we are bound to hit close.

just my two cents

Vernard