Cryptoparties and how to protect your data

Information activist Asher Wolf talks about how cryptoparties started and what you can do to protect your data

Contents

• 1 A Note of Caution
  • 1.1 Cryptography is Powerful, but not your only line of defense
    • 1.1.1 Learn and Use
• 2 Basics first
  • 2.1 Risk Analysis
  • 2.2 Kerckhoffs's principle
  • 2.3 Public Key Cryptography
    • 2.3.1 Learn and Use
  • 2.4 SSL
    • 2.4.1 Learn and Use
    • 2.4.2 Install a Free Cert (not self-signed!)
  • 2.5 AES
• 3 PGP / GPG
  • 3.1 Install GPG
    • 3.1.1 PGP Public Keyservers
  • 3.2 Import our keys
  • 3.3 Encrypt your message
    • 3.3.1 Automatic Encryption Using Enigmail/Thunderbird
      • 3.3.1.1 Learn and Use
    • 3.3.2 Manual Encryption Using Command Lines/Terminals and GPG
  • 3.4 Keys
  • 3.5 Links
  • 3.6 Learn and Use
• 4 Verifying Software Downloads & Files: Hashing
  • 4.1 Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier
  • 4.2 Hashtab & Hash My Files
  • 4.3 Checking Hashes on Linux / Mac
  • 4.4 Checking GPG Digitally Signed Software Package Signatures
• 5 Disk Encryption
  • 5.1 TrueCrypt
    • 5.1.1 Learn and Use
  • 5.2 FileVault
  • 5.3 LUKS
  • 5.4 Tomb
  • 5.5 Learn and Use
• 6 Secure Data Deletion
• 7 Encrypted Mobile Communications
  • 7.1 Gibberbot
  • 7.2 TextSecure
  • 7.3 RedPhone
  • 7.4 Chatsecure
• 8 Privacy Protected Browsing
  • 8.1 Tor
    • 8.1.1 Howto
    • 8.1.2 Learn and Use
  • 8.2 Tor Browser Bundle
  • 8.3 Onion browser on iOS
  • 8.4 Orbot: Tor On Android
  • 8.5 Orweb: Proxy+Privacy Browser
  • 8.6 Ghostery
  • 8.7 Learn and Use
• 9 Darknets
  • 9.1 Tor
  • 9.2 Tribler
  • 9.3 i2p
  • 9.4 Freenet
• 10 Secure Chat
  • 10.1 Encryption
  • 10.2 Authentication
  • 10.3 Deniability
  • 10.4 Perfect forward secrecy
  • 10.5 Client support
    • 10.5.1 Native
    • 10.5.2 Via plug-in
    • 10.5.3 Proxy
    • 10.5.4 Chat Log Files
  • 10.6 Learn and Use
• 11 Crypto Hardware
  • 11.1 IronKey
  • 11.2 Yubikey
  • 11.3 OpenPGP Smartcards
• 12 Misc
  • 12.1 Tahoe LAFS
    • 12.1.1 Learn and Use
  • 12.2 Intrusion detection systems
  • 12.3 DistrRTgen
• 13 Software Libraries
• 14 Operating System and Host Environment
  • 14.1 Home directory encryption
  • 14.2 Full Disk Encryption
    • 14.2.1 See also
  • 14.3 Operating Systems
    • 14.3.1 Tails Linux: The Amnesic Incognito Live System
    • 14.3.2 Liberté Linux
    • 14.3.3 Whonix
• 15 E-mail
  • 15.1 Website Emailers
    • 15.1.1 SSL-enabled services
    • 15.1.2 Non-SSL services
  • 15.2 Encrypted Dropboxes
    • 15.2.1 Privacybox.de
• 16 Data Liberation
  • 16.1 Learn and Use
• 17 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • 17.1 Microsoft PPTP
    • 17.1.1 Microsoft PPTP Problems
  • 17.2 OpenVPN
  • 17.3 VPN in meatspace
  • 17.4 SSH
  • 17.5 External VPN guides/links:
  • 17.6 Learn and Use
• 18 Bitcoin
  • 18.1 Learn and Use
• 19 RFID
• 20 Remote Desktop software
  • 20.1 Microsoft RDP
  • 20.2 Apple Remote Desktop ARD
• 21 Voice over IP
  • 21.1 Learn and Use
• 22 RetroShare
• 23 Mobile Phones / Smartphones
• 24 Counter-Surveillance
  • 24.1 Learn and Use
• 25 Legal Issues
  • 25.1 Australia
  • 25.2 European Union
    • 25.2.1 Ireland
      • 25.2.1.1 Decryption Laws
    • 25.2.2 United Kingdom
  • 25.3 United States
• 26 Organizations and Legal Support
  • 26.1 Electronic Frontier Foundation
• 27 Courses and Education
• 28 Where to go for more information
• 29 Some Relevant Quotes from Twitter and Elsewhere
  • 29.1 Security Humour