CryptoParty

We're going to be throwing a CryptoParty every second Thursday from 7-11pm. We have detailed directions if you're unfamiliar with the space. It's free! Just bring your laptop or other devices.

You don't have to sign up to come along - but if you do, it helps us prepare. Pseudonymous sign-ups are fine!

Drop in for a few minutes to ask a question or stay all evening and chat about privacy, security, and the interwebz.

What is a CryptoParty?

It's a lot of things in a lot of places. For most, it's a practical workshop for anyone interested in keeping their digital lives private.

Bring your laptops, netbooks, tablets and phones - we'll help you learn how to secure them and your communications:

• full disk encryption for your computers and memory sticks;

• encrypted email, text messages, IM on all your devices;

• anonymous browsing and tracker-avoidance;

• censorship circumvention;

• password generation, databases and management;

• keysigning / extending the web-of-trust.

If you have knowledge and skills to contribute in these or related areas please come along and share them with us!

Plus:

• ad-hoc discussion of the laws that govern who can access your stuff and when; and, at some point in the evening,

• our regular round-up and discussion of some cryptography basics and the latest digital-rights news, opinions, and happenings.

Have more questions? Check out cryptoparty.org. And remember to party like it's 1984! (tin foil hats not included)

Code Examples

The demonstration where I pulled my own session keys to put them into the browser had a few commands associated with it. Here they are: https://gist.github.com/eldondev/5980868

This is the script I used to modify the .ovpn files from VPNGate so that the VPN settings could be easily imported into Ubuntu: extract.sh

Talks

• 2013-JUL-11 Virtual Private Networks, Expounded Casually for the Novice Computer User
• 2013-AUG-07 Dead Drop, or how I learned to stop worrying and love encryption
• 2013-SEP-12 Onion Pi, Turning a Raspberry Pi into a Tor Access Point
• 2013-OCT-10 The Silk Road OPSEC Fail, "Whoops!"

Links

• Privacy Protests
• EFF Field Guide to Copyright Trolls
• Open Wireless Initiative
• Review of VPN Providers
• DNS Leaks Explained
• Onion Pi Step-by-Step Instructions
• Silk Road Criminal Complaint
• The Grugq Blog Archives

Online Tools

• Panopticlick Test for Browser Uniqueness
• How's my TLS?

Browser Settings, Plugins

• Customize Privacy Settings in Mozilla Firefox, Part 1, about:config - Some suggestions for modifying Firefox settings to minimize your digital footprint
• AdBlock Edge
• HTTPS Everywhere Browser Extension
• NoScript
• Disconnect
• Request Policy