August Penguin 2013

oh hai

Yuval Adam (@yuvadm)

http://y3xz.com

Independent Web Dev, Infra and Ops

"because everything sounds better when someone promises there will be beer"

Crypto - help people use privacy and anonymity software

Party - make it fun, simple and easy to use

Free / Community-organized / Non-commercial

cryptoparty

Since August 2012

100's of cities

Dozens of countries

2 Events in Tel Aviv so far

Need more people involved

privacy and anonymity trends

Data retention laws
Corporate / govt. data hoarding
Journalists under gag
Whistle-blower persecution
PRISM / Biometric Database / [Insert FUD here]

'i've got nothing to hide'

skip the implementation details

encryption / decryption

keys

plaintext / ciphertext

symmetric / asymmetric

That's it.

USERS NEED PRACTICAL ADVICE.

the tools

PGP - encryption toolkit
Tor - anonymity network
OTR - secure chat
Tails - isolated bootable USB
Full-disk encryption

endorsed = FOSS && peer-reviewed

and the low hanging fruit

HTTP security

TLS/SSL
password management
3rd party tracker/malware blocking

Secure mobile VoIP and text (the proverbial "app")
Wi-Fi security

choose your battles

Define your own threat model

Give users the freedom to choose

And the right tools to defend themselves

cryptoparty handbook

Work-in-progress attempt to compile all tutorials into a definitive point of reference

https://github.com/cryptoparty/handbook

It's in markdown!

(compiles to HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI)

organize a cryptoparty!

You don't need anyone's permission.

sudo leadership

expressed goal: bridge the gap, enable users

backdoor message: crypto as a political action

:s/crypto/free software