[Cryptoparty] [sudo-info] Fwd: CryptoParty

[Jenny Ryan]

+1, bill!

I've been meaning to send a callout to see if anyone's up for participating
in a rotating cryptoparty facilitation crew. Happy to advise on my
experience co-facilitating them for about 2 years, and provide our handouts
and materials, but I no longer have the capacity to facilitate them
regularly.
On Jul 17, 2015 12:50 PM, "William Budington" <bill at inputoutput.io> wrote:

> Although I'm generally in favor of giving crypto-parties, I'm not in favor
> of helping RSA conference with anything.  There has been widespread outrage
> in the crypto community at RSA (the org who runs the conference), who it
> was revealed in March last year was paid $10million by the NSA to
> prioritize the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator in their BSAFE crypto
> library.  Dual_EC_DRBG was analysed by the crypto community and found to be
> unsafe and possibly even backdoored.
>
> So in short, I'm opposed to organizing anything with RSA and discourage
> anyone from doing the same on ethical grounds.
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:06:03 -0700, Matthew Senate wrote:
> > In case anyone on the cryptoparty at lists.sudoroom.org list is interested
> in
> > this, see message below sent to info at sudoroom.org
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: camden murtagh <camdenmurtagh at gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM
> > Subject: [sudo-info] CryptoParty
> > To: info at sudoroom.org
> >
> >
> > Hello
> > My name is Camden Murtagh and I am with the RSA Conference, the leading
> > global conference in everything cyber security. It is a 5 day conference
> > held in San Francisco around the end of February where the leaders of the
> > industry come to discuss the current state of Cyber Security. I am
> looking
> > to put on a Cryptoparty during one of the nights of the conference and
> > after looking over your website I was wondering if you guys feel you'd be
> > equipped and or interested in hosting a cryptoparty at the conference. If
> > not would you be able to point me in the direction of someone who would
> be
> > able to help me out.
> > Thank you for your time.
> >
> > - Camden
> >
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