[sudoroom] Oakland Cryptoparty at Sudoroom

[Jehan Tremback]

Sounds pretty great, I would certainly be interested in attending.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Paul Ivanov <pi at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Sudoers,
>
> Marc Juul, on 2012-09-04 15:18,  wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Garrett Robinson
> > <garrett.f.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This sounds like a great idea! I'm interested in helping with planning
> > > and maybe holding workshops. I've been working on crypto/security
> > > materials for activists for a project for some time - this sounds like
> > > the perfect excuse to get those finished up and maybe test them on
> > > some unwitting guinea pigs...
> >
> > Sounds great!
> >
> > I'm also up for helping out with the teaching/learning/hacking/slacking
> :-)
>
> I'm up for helping run this and would enjoy attending, but likely
> won't be able to make weekend planning sessions. I will be at the
> meeting this wednesday, now that they're back to Wednesdays,
> though.
>
> some additions to that list that was passed around earlier would
> be:
>
> 1. SSH tunneling of traffic at public wifi points, or in general
> through untrusted networks. Not too long ago, it was trivial to
> sniff wireless traffic for login credentials to all major webmail
> and social network providers (a la firesheep) - this is likely
> still mostly the case [though I haven't tried it lately]
>
> 2. encfs / truecrypt
>
> 3. public key cryptography in practice -- PGP and OTR were
> already mentioned, but it seems many don't know they can use GPG
> to encrypt files just for local storage, not necessarily email.
> Also, tools such as git-annex can do that for you transparently
> when backing up to zero- and low-cost corporate-controlled remote
> storage.
>
> best,
> pi
>
> --
> Paul Ivanov
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