Learn to secure your online communication!
Attend a Cryptoparty in Bangalore!

Governments around the world are greatly increasing their surveillance of the Internet. Alongside a loss of the private sphere, this also represents a clear danger to basic civil liberties. The good news is that we already have the solution. Encrypting communications makes it very hard, if not entirely impossible, for others to eavesdrop on our conversations. The bad news is that crypto is largely ignored by the general public, partly because they don't know about it, and partly because even if they do, it seems too much trouble to implement. (Text stolen here)

So let's go and have a party, and teach each other how to use crypto!

Sunday, 30th of June, 4 PM until.. (“open end”, go home whenever you want to)

Next: sometime in August

Indira Nagar, Bangalore Centre for Internet and Society, http://cis-india.org (Domlur 2nd stage)

Everyone is invited! Do not hesitate to join, even (or especially) if you don't use crypto at all. Don't forget to bring your Laptop and/or smartphone!

See also http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/cryptoparty-bangalore for a flyer/handout you can hang up at your office/university/etc to invite your friends.

(Please do add your name below if you are thinking of coming!)

1. sva, http://twitter.com/sva. hacktivist from Chaos Computer Club.
2. Pranesh Prakash. Policy Director and resident geek at the Centre for Internet and Society.
3. Praveen https://twitter.com/spraveenitpro
4. svaksha
5. Nagarjuna(@nagarjuna1915)….Sry can't make it this time….wll try my best to attend the next one's if any..plz keep me posted on thth….thx
6. Fibinse (@fx86)
7. Sudhakara (@sudha48.reddy)
8. Subhashish Panigrahi, Wikipedian and Programme Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society
9. Bhairav Acharya
10. shruti chamaria
11. Siddharth Rao(siddharthrao1990@gmail.com)
12. I can't attend, sorry, (athullive@gmail.com)
13. Akshay Nautiyal (nautiakshay@gmail.com)
14. Saurav Kumar (netiquette.saurav@gmail.com)
15. Moiz (@Moease)
16. Jagan Challa (@jagan185)
17. Sharath Kumar (sharaths007@gmail.com)
18. Arun S(itsaruns90@gmail.com)
19. Syed Masood(doosam.deeyas@gmail.com)
20. Ashfaq Farooqui(@me_rafiki)
21. swathika
22. Karan (karanmilan@gmail.com)
23. Amar (@amaritsme)
24. Yogesh (@yogi_Londhe)
25. Abhiram
26. Nikhil kabbin(nikhil.kabbin@gmail.com)

• Laptop and/or smartphone
• Desire to learn about secure and private communications (mandatory! :D)
• Expertise, to share with others (if possible)

• Domlur bus station is a 5min walk away
• It's right next to the Domlur Club.

• IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net/#cryptoparty
• Twitter, app.net, etc: #cryptoBlr
• Pad for wild braindumps, links, ideas, etc: https://cis.pads.ccc.de/cryptoparty

see also http://pastebin.com/rzaaFkhm as an example

See also the list sva is working on here: "what?" and brief how-tos, it can also serve as a roadmap. You can already try the stuff out yourself!

(more to come, and please add your name, and what you can teach or wanna learn!)

• sva can explain email-crypto with thunderbird, enigmail and GnuPG.
• sva can explain jabber + OTR
• sva can show TOR-browser bundle how-to
• sva can show [$]ubuntu full disc encryption
• sva can give short introduction on apps+tools for Android, but wanna try things out herself as well!