Seoul Tech Society Crypto Event

On June 24th, Seoul Tech Society held an 'introduction to cryptography' event. First, Artem Lenskiy gave an overview of how symmetric and asymmetric encryption works. Followed by Joshua James with a hands-on tutorial about using GnuPG for electronic document signing and encryption. Finally, Max Goncharov talked about the new Paranoid.EMAIL service. This was all rounded out with pizza and libations.

Overall, attendees got a quick (but intense) overview of theoretical and practical encryption. We had a lot of great questions from the audience, and almost everyone left with their own GPG keypair.


For anyone who didn't make it, the presentations can be found here:

• 20150624-James-Practical_GnuPrivacyGuard_(GPG).pdf
• 20150624-Lenskiy-Cryptography_as_a_solution_to_secure_communication.pdf
• 20150624-Goncharov-Welcome_to_Paranoid.EMAIL.pdf

If you are in Korea, check out Seoul Tech Society's Meetup page to catch our next event.

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GPG Key Signing Party in Seoul 2015/06/24

Seoul Tech Society is having an introduction to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Wednesday, June 24th at D.CAMP in Seoul. We will give an introduction to PKI, followed by a tutorial for generating your own keys with GPG. We will cover electronically signing documents and software distributions, verifying signatures, basic encryption and authentication using your keys.

After, we will talk about - and play with - paranoid.email, which allows you to force partial encrypted email transmission, even when others are not using PKI.

Once all that has been covered, and everyone has their own GPG keys, we will have a GPG Key-signing PaRtY!~ Help improve the Web of Trust and have free drinks and light snacks at the same time!

Please RSVP at Meetup.com

If you are thinking about running a key-signing party, please check out this guide.

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