[vox] crypto party tomorrow!

Bill Broadley bill at broadley.org
Wed Oct 23 22:24:25 PDT 2013


On 10/23/2013 09:53 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
> Don't forget tomorrow's super crypto part

Sounds cool.  I've been working periodically on an encrypted p2p backup 
widget.  Recent revelations involving cryptography, the nsa, and snowden 
have helped me appreciate just how hard that is.  After all if NIST, 
SSL, TLS, and numerous others get it wrong....

> Crypto Party
> Time: 	7-9pm
> Date: 	October 24, 2013
> Where: 	Hacker Lab, 1715 I St., Sacramento, CA 95811	Map
> Speaker:  Richard Julian	CryptoParty

I don't think I can drive, but if someone is going from Davis I'll 
happily pitch in for Food/Beer/Gas/whatever.

> Why it is important to use encryption! In this case, mainly email
> encryption. The event will teach people about using GPG/Enigmail.

Sadly I suspect it's about impossible to get the world to use 
GPG/Enigmail.  But maybe something like bitmessage (that does encryption 
transparently) could work.

> We
> may have time for other side project presentations too. We a raspberry
> pi DNS server + router project to show off. Possibly a bit about using
> Tor. It will be mainly social though.






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