mailz-in-tails

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:18:07 -0800
e-mail, security

M41LZ in Tails

Here is the background on my workshop presentation M41LZ in Tails: securing e-mail at Code Freeze 2015. Currently the slides are under heavy development -- stay tuned as they are updated in anticipation of v1.0.0 on January 14, 2015. Of course the slides alone don't provided the extra commentary and personal experiences -- you'll have to come to Code Freeze for that!

bio

Tom Marble is best known for being the first "OpenJDK Ambassador" on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the Java programming language. Tom has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota where he worked under Otto H. Schmitt. He has combined his EE and community experiences in open source hardware projects such as USB TRNG and his software and intellectual property experiences by organizing a legal and policy issues track at Europe's largest open source conference, FOSDEM. Tom's passion for Free Software is demonstrated by frequent speaking at conferences such as O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, JavaOne, the Debian conference, Software Passion (Sweden), Fórum Internacional do Software Livre (Brazil) and Linux Conf Australia.

Mr. Marble is committed to increasing diversity in technology (especially in open source) by volunteering as an organizer for ClojureBridge Minneapolis -- a weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language -- as well as the GNOME Outreach Program for Women on behalf of the Debian project.

Tom is the founder of Informatique, Inc.: a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense, and multiplayer online gaming.

abstract

We are stuck between knowing that our Internet communications are vulnerable and using overly complex crypto tools. This workshop will explain, step by step, how to use open source encryption available in a live USB drive based system to secure e-mail. Along the way you will learn about threats to anonymity on the web and how to harness the Web of Trust. We'll then explore the next steps to making secure e-mail more practical for everyday use.

slides

The presentation can be viewed live at https://info9.net/presentations/mailz-in-tails/

The source for the presentation is at https://gitorious.org/tmarble/mailz-in-tails

feedback

Please let me know how I can improve this presentation!