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NSA Museum Trip Report

This is overdue. Sorry for the delay but I have been getting ready for this weekend’s Global Bug Jam!

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Saturday August 2 the Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team and the Columbia Area Linux Users Group organized a tour of the NSA Cryptologic Museum. There were about 23 of us that showed to tour and learn some crypto history.

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We were greeted by the staff there and introduced to David Hatch, a NSA Historian. We briefly discussed what we were looking for out of the tour and then got started. From the start David was giving us some great information. He kept the subject matter interesting and answered all the questions we came up with. We had several ‘straightmen’ in our group that asked the right questions at the right time to take us to the next area. As we went on our group seemed to pick up other guests that were going through the museum. Everyone was focused on the tour and enjoying ourselves, taking advantage of our guide’s knowledge of the subject matter. A little over two and a half ours later, that seemed much less, our tour ended. After giving applause to our host we broke into smaller groups.

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After the tour ended a group of us gathered together to take part in a GnuPG keysigning. For some it was their first event and it went smoothly. So there in the NSA museum 7 people gathered information to sign keys to expand the use of encryption and trust in the personal privacy realm.

It was a good day. To see more photos check out my flickr set.

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