Crypto Party

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's Contributions to the Conference on February 17 (III) Fri, Feb 17, 1775 (http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/singlehtml.htm)

Anonymity/Privacy?

Q: What is anonymity? A: In the context of security anonymity refers to the inability of unauthorized parties to link communications to your "real" identiy in whatever for that may take. This can also work on a sliding scale such as "Can my <crazy stalker/local law enforcement/federal law enforcement> find me?". The answer of yes for the "crazy stalker" will be significantly easier to achieve than the yes for "federal law enforcement". Q: What is privacy? A: Privacy is the ability to expose your information or behavior to only those parties you wish to share it with. This does not inherently include the ability to obscure your identity.

Anonymity and privacy are complementary to each other in many cases but are not mutually inclusive.

SSL

Why SSL is broken: http://notary.icsi.berkeley.edu/trust-tree/ The red circles on that map are the "root CAs", the Certificate Authorities that have their certificate trusted in most browsers. The size of the circle is based on the amount of certificates the CA is thought to have issued. These are all the entities that if one gets hacked, they can issue a wildcard certificate and your browser would show the certificate as valid.

GPG

This page shows how the web of trust works: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#WOT-EXAMPLES

Suggested Software:

Software usable under multiple operating systems is normally listed under each operating system.

Note about Truecrypt-No complete audit has been done yet, people are currently collecting funds for a full audit - http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

OS independent (Normally bootable iso images):

Program:	Desc:	URL:	Why?
TAILS (The Amnesiac Incognito Live System)	Secure workstation LiveCD	https://tails.boum.org/	A Linux Live edition for accessing TOR outside of your normal operating system (Note, for security reasons make sure your normal hard drive isn't accessible while booted into this, running encrypting with any whole drive encryption software should work).
DBAN	Secure storage media destruction.	http://dban.org/

If you require help burning ISO images, please join the HacDC Blabber mailing list (https://groups.google.com/a/hacdc.org/group/Blabber/subscribe) and ask how (make sure to include which operating system you are running when asking for help).

Linux and other Unix variants:

Program:	Desc:	URL:
Truecrypt	Hard Drive Encryption, File encryption	http://truecrypt.org/
Tor Browser Bundle	Anonymous web surfing (includes Tor & web browser)	https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
Thunderbird	Email Encryption	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html

Windows:

Program:	Desc:	URL:
Truecrypt	Hard Drive Encryption, File encryption	http://truecrypt.org/
Tor Browser Bundle	Anonymous web surfing (includes Tor & web browser)	https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
Thunderbird	Email Encryption	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html
GPG4Win	GPG front-end for Windows	http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html
eraser	Secure Delete	http://eraser.heidi.ie/

Mac OS:

Program:	Desc:	URL:
Truecrypt	Hard Drive Encryption, File encryption	http://truecrypt.org/
Tor Browser Bundle	Anonymous web surfing (includes Tor & web browser)	https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
Thunderbird	Email Encryption	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html
GPGtools	Integrates GnuPG with MacOSX.	http://gpgtools.org/

Android:

Program:	Desc:
Orbot	TOR for Android
Orweb	TOR web browser for Android (Orbot required)
APG	GPG Program
K-9 Mail	Email program for Android that can directly interact with APG
Adblock Plus	Detects and blocks advertisements (images, JavaScript, Java applets)

iOS:

Ghostery

Blocks web analytics agents (web bugs, JavaScript)

https://www.ghostery.com/

Web Browser Plugins:

Safari:

Ghostery	Blocks web analytics agents (web bugs, JavaScript)	https://www.ghostery.com/
Lastpass	Password manager	https://lastpass.com

Firefox:

Noscript	Disable JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, XSS, Clickjacking, etc	http://noscript.net/
Lastpass	Password manager	https://lastpass.com
HTTPS Everywhere	Enable SSL wherever possible	https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Web of Trust	Website reputation checker	https://www.mywot.com/
Mailvelope	GPG Add-on for Firefox and Chrome. Needs vetting and only the chrome addon is available prebuilt from them but the ff adon is easy to build and can be built ahead of time if needed.	http://www.mailvelope.com/
Calomel SSL Validation	Analyzes SSL configuration of sites you visit and gives you an analysis with reasoning behind the rating.	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/calomel-ssl-validation/
ShareMeNot	Blocks sharing buttons and applets unless you specifically click on them to enable them.	http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/
HTTPS Finder	Automatically detect SSL capabilities. Generates rules for HTTPS Everywhere.	https://github.com/kevinjacobs/HTTPS-Finder
Ghostery	Blocks web analytics agents (web bugs, JavaScript)	https://www.ghostery.com/
Adblock Plus	Detects and blocks advertisements (images, JavaScript, Java applets)	https://adblockplus.org/

Chrome:

Lastpass	Password manager	https://lastpass.com
HTTPS Everywhere	Enable SSL wherever possible	https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Web of Trust	Website reputation checker	https://www.mywot.com/
Mailvelope	GPG Add-on for Firefox and Chrome. Needs vetting and only the chrome addon is available prebuilt from them but the ff adon is easy to build and can be built ahead of time if needed.	http://www.mailvelope.com/
ShareMeNot	Blocks sharing buttons and applets unless you specifically click on them to enable them.	http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/
Ghostery	Blocks web analytics agents (web bugs, JavaScript)	https://www.ghostery.com/
Adblock Plus	Detects and blocks advertisements (images, JavaScript, Java applets)	https://adblockplus.org/

Opera:

Lastpass	Password manager	https://lastpass.com
Ghostery	Blocks web analytics agents (web bugs, JavaScript)	https://www.ghostery.com/
Adblock Plus	Detects and blocks advertisements (images, JavaScript, Java applets)	https://adblockplus.org/

Internet Explorer:

Lastpass	Password manager	https://lastpass.com
Ghostery	Blocks web analytics agents (web bugs, JavaScript)	https://www.ghostery.com/

Non web browser plugins:

Thunderbird:

Enigmail	GPG Add-on for Thunderbird	http://www.enigmail.net/download/index.php

Links:

Site:	URL:	Notes:
tormail.org	http://jhiwjjlqpyawmpjx.onion/ (http://tormail.org/)	Email service only available via tor
Mailtor	http://mailtoralnhyol5v.onion/ (http://mailtor.net/)	Email service only available via tor
Mailvelope	http://www.mailvelope.com/	In-browser PGP encryption for webmail
Encrypt Everything	https://www.encrypteverything.ca/index.php?title=Main_Page	Good resource on encryption for the web. Good resource for beginner to intermediate skill level.
Surveilance Self-Defense	https://ssd.eff.org/	EFF's guide to protecting yourself from digital surveilance. Extremely in-depth and detailed. For the advanced (or very paranoid). Not light reading.
Qualys Browsercheck	https://browsercheck.qualys.com/	Automated scanning of browser, plugins, and Windows updates for vulnerable, out-of-date configuration
SSL Labs	https://www.ssllabs.com/	Tool for checking any site's SSL setup for bad practices and vulnerabilities
Calomel SSL Validation	https://calomel.org/firefox_ssl_validation.html	Firefox add-on for analyzing and verifying SSL configurations of sites you visit.
DEATH NOTE: L, ANONYMITY & ELUDING ENTROPY	http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity	A.k.a., why "metadata" matters and how much the NSA can really know about you from your phone records.
Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere	http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/	Illustration of how to use seemingly useless data points to pin charges on someone. Told from the perspective of a British intelligence officer looking for trators in collonial America.
crypto-log	http://www.uni-mannheim.de/studorg/gahg/PGP/cryptolog1.html	Updated 1996
Intro level guide to Internet Security	http://qz.com/120946/the-complete-guide-to-not-being-that-idiot-who-got-the-company-hacked/	A guide for non-technical denizens of the Internet on how not to be low-hanging fruit for hackers.