Welcome to Cryptoparty!



We're all about providing resources for regular folks seeking to secure their communications in a casual, fun, and positive environment. Our events are free of charge, open to anyone, and politically non-aligned.



Passwords. We all need them, nobody likes them, and few understand them. We've all heard the common wisdom: lots of symbols, at least eight characters, and never use the same one twice. Without context, this advice is worse than useless. It leads people to believe that using "March@2016!" in one place and "March@2016!!" in another place is a totally okay thing to do.



It isn't.



Good password security is not about using special characters and making sure that they're at least eight to ten characters in length. It's about entropy. While that word may sound mathy and scary, the concept is as critical to understanding password security as it is straightfoward. And though never using the same password in multiple places is a good rule of thumb, it helps much more to understand why that's so important.



In this month's meetup, we hope to replace the "common wisdom" of password security with hard facts and simple, actionable concepts that will allow you to confidently make and manage secure passwords.



5ee y0u th3re!



After the presentation, there will be an open workshop time during which you'll be able to get one-on-one help with electronic privacy tools such as GnuPG, Tor, TAILS, KeePass, TrueCrypt, and TextSecure/Signal.