Bangalore CryptoParty!
Care about your privacy and online security? Want to fight against pervasive governmental surveillance and corporate invasions of privacy? The Centre for Internet & Society invites you to the CryptoParty tonight (Friday) at 6.00 p.m. Make sure to bring friends (and your laptop and smart phones)!
We will discuss, install and use digital security and privacy tools and practices.
Hosts
Thejesh GN
Kaustubh Srikanth
Pranesh Prakash
Details
We Will Provide
- Food and drinks: Snacks - Samosas + Kachoris + Biscuits + Tea + Soft Drinks
- Software: Security-in-a-box toolkits + Ubuntu Live USBs + software + internet connection
- Expertise: Kaustubh Srikanth + Thejesh GN + Pranesh Prakash
You need to bring
- Your own laptop (highly recommended)
- Desire to learn about secure and private communications and storage (mandatory! :D)
- Expertise, to share with others (if possible)
Intro
(20 mins)
- Privacy vs. convenience
- Importance of Free and Open Source Software and Open Standards
- Basics of Passwords
- Choosing secure passwords
- Dropbox Register Page
- Storing comes later
- 2FA - Google Authenticator
- Securing online Identities
Show and tell
Browsing (45 mins)
(5 mins)
- Firefox (multiple platforms) / offline
(15 mins):
- AdBlockPlus
- RequestPolicy
- HTTPSEverywhere
- Ghostery / DoNotTrackMe
- Noscript
(5 mins)
- Anti-Google Surveillance
- DuckDuckGo
- GoogleSharing
(10 mins)
- Password management
- Keepass + Password Safe
- Cloud Services
- LastPass
- Keepass + Dropbox
Email + IM (1 hour)
(10 mins)
- Thunderbird (multiple platforms) / available offline
- Enigmail
(30 mins)
- GPG4Win + GPGTools / offline
- Seahorse (on Ubuntu Fresh Install)
- Enigmail + Key Management (Kaustubh)
- Key-signing party!
(15 mins)
- Instant Messaging with OTR
- Pidgin + Adium / offline
- OTR / offline
Tell (27 mins)
(5 mins)
- Tor (Pranesh)
(5 mins)
- VPNs and SSH tunnel
- RiseUp (Kaustubh)
- SSH tunneling using AWS / RackSpace (Thej)
(12 mins)
- Mobiles
- APG + K9 (Pranesh)
- WhisperCore (Kaustubh mentions)
- Text Secure (Thej)
- Gibbberbot (Pranesh)
(3 mins)
- Full-disk encryption
- Ubuntu (Pranesh demoes quickly)
- BitLocker
- TrueCrypt
(2 mins)
- Virtual machines
- VirtualBox (Kaustubh demoes quickly)
Event details
When
Dec 28, 2012
from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM
Where
The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, IInd Stage - 560071 (Near Domlur Club and TERI Complex)
