NYLUG: Daniel Kahn Gillmor on GnuPG & OpenPGP 🚀

Elliptic curves! Decentralized authority! Daemonized architecture! UI/UX improvements!

OpenPGP is a popular standard for many kinds of cryptographic communication, from confidential e-mail to identity certification to authenticated software delivery.

GnuPG is the flagship implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It has seen some major developments over the last year, and more are yet to come, as new software is built to support OpenPGP and as the standard begins another round of revisions to incorporate more modern cryptography and (hopefully) fix some long-standing warts.

Come learn tricks and best practices for making the most of this important toolkit, and get get a sense of the changes ahead.

Links:
https://www.gnupg.org/
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/openpgp/current/maillist.html
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/GnuPG

Speaker Bio:
dkg is a Debian developer and a technologist for the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology project. His focus is on providing secure communications with free software and on improving the security of the protocols we all rely on. He's involved in the process of rechartering the OpenPGP working group in the IETF, and is a member of Debian's GnuPG packaging team and one of the Debian keyring maintainers.