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Welcome to the organising page for the Durham CryptoParty.

Please book yourself a place if you intend to be there on the night in any capacity, so we don't overcrowd the room. If we get fully booked we'll think about putting on another event for anyone who we couldnt' fit in.

There is no charge for attendance. We have been given free use of a room on the understanding that we will be buying drinks at the bar (soft drinks are available) which is open from 7.30PM.

The event has been instigated by some members of Durham Linux User Group, however the event is open to users of all systems. If you have knowledge of a non-*nix system and are able to help people use simply encryption tools on it, please make yourself known (use an alias if you like) in the volunteers section below.

This is what we've got:

• Venue: Classroom at the Durham Amateur Rowing Club
• Time: 7.30pm to 10.30pm
• Desk space and chairs for up to 30 people
• Plenty of power sockets
• wifi
• projector with VGA input if anyone wants to show stuff to the group
• “break out” space in the bar
• parking for cars and bikes. and boats for that matter.

• Snacks
• Signage
• Some old, cheapo USB flash drives to give away TAILS on. Anyone know where we can get some, e.g. some promotional ones that got overproduced?

• Make this wiki page better / make more pages
• Contact interested local groups
• Social media links pointing to this page
• Make some signs (A4 should do) to direct people to the right room
• Bake a cake #1 mark will make one
• Bake a cake #2 no volunteer yet

I think the main plan is to hang loose and show each other cool stuff. However if lots of people turn up needing a basic overview of a topic, it would be cool to have a 5-minute presentation prepared, would it not? There are slides already on this wiki for us to use. Could folks nominate themselves here / add your offer to the list, or take one of these:

• PGP basics no volunteer yet
• PGP keysigning RM
• Simple TOR usage with TBB no volunteer yet
• OTR no volunteer yet
• Hard disk encryption no volunteer yet

please add Q/A depending on what you have

Q Will the cakes be stored in a CryptoPantry? A No, nor will they contain keys.