[Noisebridge-discuss] GPG Workshop?

Drew Smith drew at riotnrrd.com
Thu Sep 19 18:29:20 UTC 2013


I will try to make it down to this if I am available. I can help with
gpgtools and gpg on mac in general.

Cheers,
- Drew.

--
Drew Smith (mux) <drew at riotnrrd.com>, VA7DSX / VE0TF
Encrypted e-mail preferred, public key at http://riotnrrd.com/pubkey.gpg


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Yan Zhu <yan at mit.edu> wrote:

> Because people asked, here are things you should bring:
>
> - Computer with GPG installed if it doesn't come with your OS:
> http://www.gnupg.org/download/. Hopefully y'all use Linux, since I have
> no experience with the popular GPG front-ends for Mac (gpgtools) and
> Windows (gpg4win). But if everyone who shows up hates the command line, we
> can just use one of those for teaching purposes.
>
> - Suggested: USB drive, preferably encrypted. Otherwise download Truecrypt
> onto your computer: http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads
>
> - Suggested-if-you-have-one: hardware random number generator, like
> http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
>
> - A sense of adventure
>
> - Some patience
>
> - Friends! Ones who will sign your key after they make theirs!
>
> Or just bring your smiling faces, that's fine too.
>
> -Yan
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Yan Zhu <yan at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Ok, looks like I'll be doing a GPG workshop at Noisebridge this Sunday, 4
>> pm!
>>
>> I plan to quickly go through how to set up GPG and use it, explain best
>> practices for common GPG operations, point out some weird GPG usability
>> failure points, and then have a bunch of time open for questions. We can
>> also discuss other things such as whether GPG is still worthwhile in the
>> face of the NSA cryptopacalypse.
>>
>> This would be mostly for GPG beginners with some technical background,
>> but we can be flexible depending on who shows up. If you are a GPG
>> super-expert, you can help teach!
>>
>> -Yan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Yan Zhu <yan at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be up for running a GPG workshop at Noisebridge. I was thinking
>>> Saturday afternoon, with 1 hr for beginners and 1 hr for people who are
>>> more paranoid.
>>>
>>> Tom Lowenthal and I had planned to do this a while ago, so I'll see if
>>> he's interested/available.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, James Addison <jay at jp-hosting.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks John!  That sounds perfect; will hopefully get myself across
>>>> there this afternoon.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 14 September 2013 18:45, John Shutt <john.d.shutt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  On 09/14/2013 06:24 PM, James Addison wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey Noisebridge,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I've been thinking of using GPG for a long time, but have only
>>>>> finally gotten around to sending my first few messages to friends using it,
>>>>> and even as a fairly seasoned geek it still feels like a pain to manage -
>>>>> which is bad, we should make this stuff easy (easier?).
>>>>>
>>>>>  Are there any folks out there with a bit more experience who'd be
>>>>> willing to get together and work through some of this stuff with a group?
>>>>>  Even if using throwaway mail addresses/identities, I think running through
>>>>> the process of creating a new identity, generating subkeys,
>>>>> sending/receiving, managing revocation of keys, etc might make a lot more
>>>>> sense if done in person.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I am totally willing to help in terms of preparing any instructional
>>>>> material, finding folks interested, helping people debug problems on the
>>>>> day, etc - but I don't feel like I know enough about gpg yet to really
>>>>> 'run' a class/workshop yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>  As a sidenote, any tips for utilities etc to make things easier
>>>>> would also be nice!  gpa sounds like one possibility, for example.  Ideally
>>>>> I like the idea of using easily-revocable subkeys with gpg as an app on my
>>>>> phone but not sure how easy/feasible this is.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Partly inspired by reading:
>>>>> https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/
>>>>>
>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>> James
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>
>>>>>  Hey James,
>>>>>
>>>>> I heard that there's going to be another cryptoparty tomorrow at Sudo
>>>>> Room in Oakland from 2pm to 5pm. I went to the cryptoparty last month and
>>>>> there was a great workshop on setting up PGP/GPG for e-mail. I think going
>>>>> to those workshops would be a good starting point to setting up
>>>>> cryptoparties at Noisebridge.
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
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>>>
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>>
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>> Yan Zhu
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