2012-11-14
CryptoParty @ dk
As I write this, I am attending Copenhagen's first CryptoParty. Some highlights:
Pizza! Beer!
censurfridns.dk provide an uncensored public DNS resolver service, to work around censorship of ISP DNS service in Denmark.
I helped some dudes understand how to transparently proxy data through Tor, and warned them about the consequences of doing it incompletely.
A session about secure Android apps: I installed TextSecure on my phone, looks nice and the passphrase may prevent some drunk texting. ;-)
There was also a presentation on Bitcoin. I didn't learn anything new from the slides, and didn't understand the Danish...
Because everything is in Danish, I spent some of the time tinkering with Mailpile, thinking about how to add GPG support to it. I also improved my gpg-edit encrypted file editor, making it ever so slightly more user friendly.
Woo, crypto!
Seeing the anti-DNS-censorship talk made me feel I should probably prepare a CryptoParty-focused talk about PageKite, its applications as a peer-to-peer communications tool and how to use it securely. It might also be cool to add a couple of features to make secure HTTPS even easier.
Tomorrow, I fly back home. I look forward to seeing my bed again.
