{"id":4350,"date":"2016-02-05T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2016-02-04T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:54:06","slug":"jan-cryptoparty-summary-next-one-is-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/jan-cryptoparty-summary-next-one-is-224\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. Cryptoparty Summary, Next One is 2\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here is a summary one of the Somerville Cryptoparty organizers wrote about the January cryptoparty. \u00a0The next cryptoparty will be Wednesday, February 24th, 6-9pm at Parts &amp; Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave., Somerville. \u00a0If you want to help out with other cryptoparties in New England, join our <a class=\"extern\" href=\"mailto:cryptoparty@masspirates.org\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"il\">cryptoparty<\/span>@masspirates.org<\/a>\u00a0email list. You can sign up at\u00a0<a class=\"extern\" href=\"https:\/\/lists.mayfirst.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/cryptoparty_masspirates.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lists.mayfirst.org\/<wbr \/>mailman\/listinfo\/cryptoparty_<wbr \/>masspirates.org\/<\/a>. \u00a0Anyone\u00a0who wants to organize cryptoparties and share ideas for making them better is\u00a0welcome to join.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Awesome to see so many regulars and new faces at last week&#8217;s cryptoparty. Here&#8217;s what went down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30,000 foot overview of asymmetrical public key cryptography<\/li>\n<li>We had a demo of\u00a0booting with Tails and browsing with Tor. It included\u00a0clear explanations of how these tools work and what they&#8217;re supposed to do.<\/li>\n<li>We talked a little about other tools, such as Keybase for browser-based encryption, Thunderbird as an e-mail client with the Enigmail extension, Signal for encrypted SMS. Reach out to this list host if you want Keybase invites!<\/li>\n<li>Lots of questions and answers and general shooting-of-the-sh*t<\/li>\n<li>We saw (but didn&#8217;t get to play with) a YubiKey in the wild.<\/li>\n<li>We saw (and marveled at) a Faraday bag in the wild.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some possible topics for the months ahead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LibrePlanet 2016 is March 19th and 20th. Keynote speaker is Edward Snowden. I&#8217;ll be leading a session on the 19th called &#8220;Community Technology for Solidarity Economies&#8221; and would love to get feedback of some of my presentation from y&#8217;all. There&#8217;s also been discussion on this listserv about setting up a booth \/ room for the event. All ears.<\/li>\n<li>A general overview of TLS and SSL.<\/li>\n<li>A general overview of VPNs and how to get them working.<\/li>\n<li>How to set up and maintain a private web server.<\/li>\n<li>How to torrent media safely.<\/li>\n<li>Checksums and data integrity.<\/li>\n<li>Encrypted communications with media.<\/li>\n<li>Encrypted communications with several recipients.<\/li>\n<li>Dual boots and encrypted volumes.<\/li>\n<li>And of course more key sharing and an intros to newcomers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a summary one of the Somerville Cryptoparty organizers wrote about the January cryptoparty. \u00a0The next cryptoparty will be Wednesday, February 24th,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptoparty","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/400px-Cryptoparty.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-18a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}