On 09-Mar-2016, Scott Junner wrote: > Actually, we'll be working through the Email Self Defence course > <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/> created by Free Software > Foundation.
Thank you to everyone who attended, everyone who helped us prepare this event, and especially those who helped people new to email encryption at the workshop. The Email Self-defense course led us through setting up and demonstrating the tools. Here are some important next steps: * Reflect on the security implications. Defending online communications from unwanted eavesdropping is not a set-and-forget add-on. It is a brute fact that the issues need to be understood in order to stay secure. We went some way to that at the workshop. The course material <URL:https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/> has a brief section “Use It Well” with major points, and a link to the “Next Steps” article. * Use a passphrase. XKCD 936 <URL:https://xkcd.com/936/> “Password Strength” explains that what makes a passphrase effective is not a short jumble of arbitrary unmemorable characters, but *length* (a handful of actual words), and *randomness* (don't choose those words yourself). No punctuation or garbled text needed. I am the Debian maintainer for the XKCD Passphrase Generator as the ‘xkcdpass’ package <URL:http://packages.debian.org/xkcdpass>. You can also use a site like <URL:http://useapassphrase.com/> that is a useful reference for why to do this, and how to do it yourself if you choose. * Store your passphrases securely and conveniently. Each passphrase you use for each service should be unpredictable, unique, and different on each service. This means you need a program to help you track which passphrase gets you into which service. The same store of your credentials needs to be available and up-to-date on each device you might need to access those passphrases. Adam Bolte taught us about <URL:https://www.passwordstore.org/> Password Store a while ago. Since then it has grown clients to help you track the same database of credentials across all your devices. Now go forth and communicate freely and securely! -- \ “If we listen only to those who are like us, we will squander | `\ the great opportunity before us: To live together peacefully in | _o__) a world of unresolved differences.” —David Weinberger | Ben Finney <[email protected]>
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