[Wylug-discuss] Cryptography skill-share, all welcome, this Sunday

[Mark Ruddell]

No need to book a place, just turn up.

CRYPTODAY: a GNU/Linux & free software skillshare 
<http://www.thecommonplace.org.uk/content/view/128/1/> - Brought to you 
by the common place  IT collective. 
<http://www.thecommonplace.org.uk/content/view/89/53/>

At our last sunday skill-share we decided to carry on trying to do these 
things on the 1st Sunday of each month. We decided to stick with having 
a mixture of basic and advanced stuff each time, as this seems to be 
going well. But this time, we're going to try doing the 'advanced' bit 
in the morning rather than afternoon. We opted for a theme of 
*cryptography* for August 3rd, starting at 10AM. 
<http://www.thecommonplace.org.uk/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,151/year,2008/month,08/day,03/Itemid,75/> 
Then in the afternoon we'll do installs / clinic.

We will be talking about how & why 'ordinary' computer users can do the 
basics of crypto. Especially, to spread the message that even if you 
have 'nothing to hide', you might still want to protect yourself from 
identity theft and profiling; and that the more people use encryption, 
the more effective it is. So even if you don't think this stuff applies 
to you... maybe it does. 

Possible contributions already offered are: how to use GPG encrypted 
email; securing your laptop & USB flash stick; encrypted files & 
filesystems; loop devices, device mapper modules and crypto support in 
the 2.6 kernel series; encrypting a /home directory.

Mark

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