[Noisebridge-discuss] GPG Workshop?

James Addison jay at jp-hosting.net
Sun Sep 22 22:01:00 UTC 2013


Looking forward to it, I'll be there, w/ Linux laptop & essentials.


On 22 September 2013 14:25, Yan Zhu <yan at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Yan Zhu
>>>>> http://web.mit.edu/zyan/www/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Yan Zhu
>>>> http://web.mit.edu/zyan/www/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Yan Zhu
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