Learning to use OpenPGP, GnuPG and the Web of Trust

"Learning to use OpenPGP, GnuPG and the Web of Trust"

Part 1: Getting Started - Intro to OpenPGP/PGP/GnuPG - Downloading/installing GnuPG - Retrieving a key - Verifying a digital signature

Part 2: Windows Privacy Tools (i.e. how to help your Windows friends or co-workers use GnuPG) - Downloading/Installing WinPT - Using it with an e-mail program - Using it with the clipboard

Part 3: Web of Trust - Trust model: decentralized versus centralized - Using keyservers - Signing/receiving keys - Keysigning parties

Part 4: Using GnuPG and e-mail - A look at various e-mail clients and how they can use GnuPG

Part 5: Other things you can do - Secure IM using Jabber - Signing web pages - Signing packages - Web of trust statistics

Participants will leave knowing how to be able to create their own key and use it as part of their normal routine. If time and equipment permits, participants will also be able to take part in a mini-keysigning linking their keys into the greater web of trust.