Email Privacy, Encryption and Security

• Why email is insecure
• How you can be snooped on
• Basics of confidentiality
• Encryption and cryptanalysis
• Practical use of ciphers
• Threat and risk
• Secrecy

• OpenPGP and its implementations
• Key management
• User IDs
• Private keys and passphrases
• Keys and safety
• Verification of keys and identity
• Using OpenPGP to communicate
• Public keyservers
• The Web of Trust

• S/MIME basics
• Certification Authorities and the trust model
• Certificate chains
• Obtaining free certificates
• Using S/MIME to communicate

• What and why
• The basics of codes and security checks
• Email secrecy, clandestine communications
• Dealing with enforced key disclosure
• Ideal codes
• Steganography

• The implications of digital signatures and encryption
• Encrypting to self
• Building the web of trust
• Utilities for webmail and file encryption

Anyone who is concerned about confidentiality and integrity of their email and who is willing to learn how to do so in situations of low to moderate threat