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City of Durham, United Kingdom

CryptoParty on October 21st, 2014


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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.

Who is doing this?

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.

We are also reaching out to some other local groups in the hope of involving them.

What we have

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.
  • level access for those with mobility problems
  • Real ale

What we need

Can you help us source these?

  • 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?
  • Relevant campaign stickers

Volunteers

In advance
RoleVolunteer
Add good ideas to this wiki page all
Contact interested local groups all
Pump out social media & other links pointing to this page all
Make some signs (A4 should do) to direct people to the right room who has access to a printer at work?
Bake a cake #1 mark will make one
Bake a cake #2 no volunteer yet - write here if you're up for it
On the night

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:

RoleVolunteer
PGP basics Olly
PGP keysigning Rich M
Simple TOR usage with TBB mark
OTR Dan + someone else? Alice and Bob?
Hard disk encryption several of us know how to use dmcrypt, who wants to show off?
Mac go-to person Helen
Windows go-to person Rich P

Questions and Answers

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.

Q I have a 3D printer which can dispense solder paste. Can I use it to render my key into icing on top of a cake?

A You should definitely do that. Use a clean syringe though.

Q Who should attend?

A Anyone who wants to learn or share how to use simple encryption tools

Q What should I bring?

A Bring a portable computing device if you want help to use it