[Noisebridge-discuss] GPG Workshop?

[Yan Zhu]

reminder that this is in 1.5 hrs in Turing!

let's convince tom to stop playing DnD and help out!

you guys rock!

ENCRYPT ALL THE THINGS
-yan


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Drew Smith <drew at riotnrrd.com> wrote:

> 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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