[Noisebridge-discuss] GPG Workshop?

[Yan Zhu]

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!
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> -Yan
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> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Yan Zhu <yan at mit.edu> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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.
>>>
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>>> 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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