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- <img alt="Free Software Foundation"
- src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/fsf-logo.png" />
+ <img alt="Free Software Foundation" src="Email%20Self-Defense%20-%20a%20guide%20to%20fighting%20surveillance%20with%20GnuPG%20encryption_files/fsf-logo.png">
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- We fight for computer users' rights, and promote the development of free (as in freedom) software. Resisting bulk surveillance is very important to us.
+ We fight for computer users'
+rights, and promote the development of free (as in freedom) software.
+Resisting bulk surveillance is very important to us.
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- We want to translate this guide into more languages, and make a version for encryption on mobile devices. Please donate, and help people around the world take the first step towards protecting their privacy with free software.
+ We want to translate this guide
+into more languages, and make a version for encryption on mobile
+devices. Please donate, and help people around the world take the first
+step towards protecting their privacy with free software.
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- <a id="infographic" href="infographic.html"><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/infographic-button.png" alt="View & share our infographic →" /></a>
- Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights and makes free speech risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance self-defense skill: email encryption. Once you've finished, you'll be able to send and receive emails that are coded to make sure a surveillance agent or thief intercepting your email can't read it. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account, and about half an hour.</p>
+ <a id="infographic" href="https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html"><img src="Email%20Self-Defense%20-%20a%20guide%20to%20fighting%20surveillance%20with%20GnuPG%20encryption_files/infographic-button.png" alt="View & share our infographic →"></a>
+ Each person who chooses to resist mass surveillance makes it easier and less out of the ordinary for others to resist as well. People normalizing the use of strong cryptography helps whistle-blowers, dissidents, and activists and blend in better by providing cover traffic.</p>
-<p>Even if you have nothing to hide, using encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. If you do have something important to hide, you're in good company; these are the same tools that Edward Snowden used to share his famous secrets about the NSA.</p>
+<p>There's no objective method of what constitutes an interesting correspondance. As such, don't presume just because you find an email you sent to a friend innocous, your friend (or a third party, for that matter!) feels the same way. Show your friends respect by encrypting your correspondences with them.</p>
-<p>In addition to using encryption, standing up to surveillance requires fighting politically for a <a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">reduction in the amount of data collected on us</a>, but the essential first step is to protect yourself and make surveillance of your communication as difficult as possible. Let's get started!</p>
+<p>Without our collective complacency, mass surveillance loses its effectiveness. This guide aims to help you facilitate Email Self-Defense workshops within your community, so that we may all stand a better chance of making the world a better, freer place!</p>
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</header><!-- End #header -->
-<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 1: Get the pieces ~~~~~~~~~ -->
+<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 0: Why GnuPG> ~~~~~~~~~ -->
<section class="row" id="section1">
<div>
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<div class="section-intro">
- <h2><em>#1</em> Get the pieces</h2>
-<p class="notes">This guide relies on software which is freely licensed; it's completely transparent and anyone can copy it or make their own version. This makes it safer from surveillance than proprietary software (like Windows). Learn more about free software at <a href="https://u.fsf.org/ys">fsf.org</a>.</p>
+ <h2><em>#0</em> Why GnuPG? </h2>
-<p>Most GNU/Linux operating systems come with GnuPG installed on them, so you don't have to download it. Before configuring GnuPG though, you'll need the IceDove desktop email program installed on your computer. Most GNU/Linux distributions have IceDove installed already, though it may be under the alternate name "Thunderbird." Email programs are another way to access the same email accounts you can access in a browser (like Gmail), but provide extra features.</p>
- <p>If you already have an email program, you can skip to <a href="#step-1b">Step 1.b</a>.</p>
- </div><!-- End .section-intro -->
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- <div id="step-1a" class="step">
- <div class="sidebar">
- <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/screenshots/step1a-install-wizard.png" alt="Step 1.A: Install Wizard" /></p>
- </div><!-- /.sidebar -->
- <div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 1.a</em> Setup your email program with your email account</h3>
- <p>Open your email program and follow the wizard (step-by-step walkthrough) that sets it up with your email account.</p>
+<p>NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden once famously <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower?CMP=twt_gu#block-51bf3588e4b082a2ed2f5fc5">wrote </a>, "Encryption works." When he chose to leak his information <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/"> to film maker Laura Poitras</a>, he put his trust in the GNU Privacy Guard , and it didn't let him down. Although “encryption works,” even the most perfect software and algorithms still fail when the underlying system is not secure, or if the user doesn't understand how to properly make the software work for them.</p>
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div class="troubleshooting">
- <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
- <dl>
- <dt>The wizard doesn't launch</dt>
- <dd>You can launch the wizard yourself, but the menu option for doing so is named differently in each email programs. The button to launch it will be in the program's main menu, under "New" or something similar, titled something like "Add account" or "New/Existing email account."</dd>
- <dt>The wizard can't find my account or isn't downloading my mail</dt>
- <dd>Before searching the Web, we recommend you start by asking other people who use your email system, to figure out the correct settings.</dd>
- <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
- <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
- </dl>
- </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
+<p>Setting up a secure computer and understanding how it works is a daunting task, even for many advanced users. Simple mistakes lead to disaster, and many people who would benefit from using GnuPG don't simply because the process sounds too complex. GnuPG is a powerful and versatile program, and it's sad that more people don't use it.</P>
- </div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step1-a .step -->
+<p>If you already love GnuPG, do your part to help increase herd immunity to mass surveillance by helping your friends and neighbors master the challenges GnuPG poses. Help them keep their digital love letters private, and teach them the benefits of free software. Oftentimes, users over-calculate the complexity of setting up GnuPG, when all they really need is a ally to sit down with them and help them get started. Go be that friend!</P>
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- <div class="sidebar">
- <ul class="images">
- <li><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/screenshots/step1b-01-tools-addons.png" alt="Step 1.B: Tools -> Add-ons" /></li>
- <li><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/screenshots/step1b-02-search.png" alt="Step 1.B: Search Add-ons" /></li>
- <li><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/screenshots/step1b-03-install.png" alt="Step 1.B: Install Add-ons" /></li>
- </ul>
- </div><!-- /.sidebar -->
- <div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 1.b</em> Install the Enigmail plugin for your email program</h3>
- <p>In your email program's menu, select Add-ons (it may be in the Tools section). Make sure Extensions is selected on the left. Do you see Enigmail? If so, skip this step.</p>
- <p>If not, search "Enigmail" with the search bar in the upper right. You can take it from here. Restart your email program when you're done.</p>
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div class="troubleshooting">
- <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
- <dl>
- <dt>I can't find the menu.</dt>
- <dd>In many new email programs, the main menu is represented by an image of three stacked horizontal bars.</dd>
+<p>To fully benefit from this guide, please read it in its entirety before proceeding.</p>
- <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
- <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
- </dl>
- </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
- </div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step-1b .step -->
+ </div><!-- End .section-intro -->
</div>
- </section><!-- End #section1 -->
+ </section><!-- End #section0 -->
-<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 2: Make your keys ~~~~~~~~~ -->
+<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 1: Plan The Workshop ~~~~~~~~~ -->
<section class="row" id="section2">
<div>
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<div class="section-intro">
- <h2><em>#2</em> Make your keys</h2>
- <p>To use the GnuPG system, you'll need a public key and a private key (known together as a keypair). Each is a long string of randomly generated numbers and letters that are unique to you. Your public and private keys are linked together by a special mathematical function.</p>
+ <h2><em>#1</em> Plan The Workshop</h2>
+ <p>When you hear friends bemoaning their lack of digital privacy, ask them if they're interested in attending a workshop to on email self-defense. Once you've got a handful of people interested, pick a date and start planning out the event. Tell participants to bring their computer, their ID (for signing each other's key) and a flash drive.</p>
-<p>Your public key isn't like a physical key, because it's stored in the open in an online directory called a keyserver. People download it and use it, along with GnuPG, to encrypt emails they send to you. You can think of the keyserver as phonebook, where people who want to send you an encrypted email look up your public key.</p>
+<p>The success of each workshop requires understanding and catering to the unique background and needs of each group of participants. Workshops should stay small, so that participants receive more individualized instruction. If more than a handful of people want to participate, keep the participant:facilitator ratio low by recruiting more facilitators, or by facilitating multiple workshops. Ideally, facilitators should be known and trusted members of the participants' community. Small workshops among friends work great!</p>
-<p>Your private key is more like a physical key, because you keep it to yourself (on your computer). You use GnuPG and your private key to decode encrypted emails other people send to you.</p>
+<p>Many activists, journalists, whistleblowers, businessfolk, academics, and dissidents use the OpenPGP standard, so participants might unknowingly know of a few people who use it already. If possible, make a list of people and organizations that use OpenPGP which participants will likely recognize by searching for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22BEGIN+PGP+PUBLIC+KEY+BLOCK%22+%2B+%22free+software%22">"BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" + keyword</a>.</p>
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- <div id="step-2a" class="step">
+ <div id="step-1a" class="step">
<div class="sidebar">
- <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/screenshots/step2a-01-make-keypair.png" alt="Step 2.A: Make a Keypair" /></p>
+ <p><img src="Email%20Self-Defense%20-%20a%20guide%20to%20fighting%20surveillance%20with%20GnuPG%20encryption_files/step1a-install-wizard.png" alt="Step 2.A: Make a Keypair"></p>
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<div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 2.a</em> Make a keypair</h3>
- <p>The Enigmail Setup wizard may start automatically. If it doesn't, select Enigmail → Setup Wizard from your email program's menu. You don't need to read the text in the window that pops up unless you'd like to, but it's good to read the text on the later screens of the wizard. Click Next with the default options selected, except in these instances:</p>
-<ul>
- <li>On the screen titled "Encryption," select "Encrypt all of my messages by default, because privacy is critical to me."</li>
- <li>On the screen titled "Signing," select "Don't sign my messages by default."</li>
- <li>On the screen titled "Key Selection," select "I want to create a new key pair for signing and encrypting my email."</li>
- <li>On the screen titled "Create Key," pick a strong password! Your password should be at least 12 characters and include at least one lower case and upper case letter and at least one number or punctuation symbol. Don't forget the password, or all this work will be wasted!</li>
-</ul>
- <p class="notes">The program will take a little while to finish the next step, the "Key Creation" screen. While you wait, do something else with your computer, like watching a movie or browsing the Web. The more you use the computer at this point, the faster the key creation will go.</p>
- <p>When the "Key Generation Completed" screen pops up, select Generate Certificate and choose to save it in a safe place on your computer (we recommend making a folder called "Revocation Certificate" in your home folder and keeping it there). You'll learn more about the revocation certificate in <a href="#section5">Section 5</a>.</p>
-
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div class="troubleshooting">
- <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
- <dl>
- <dt>I can't find the Enigmail menu.</dt>
- <dd>In many new email programs, the main menu is represented by an image of three stacked horizontal bars. Enigmail may be inside a section called Tools.</dd>
- <dt>The wizard says that it cannot find GnuPG.</dt>
-
- <dd>Open whatever program you usually use for installing software, and search for GnuPG, then install it. Then restart the Enigmail setup wizard by going to Enigmail → Setup Wizard.</dd>
-
- <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
- <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
- </dl>
- </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
- </div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step-2a .step -->
-
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ a div for each step ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div id="step-2b" class="step">
- <div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 2.b</em> Upload your public key to a keyserver</h3>
- <p>In your email program's menu, select Enigmail → Key Management.</p>
-<p>Right click on your key and select Upload Public Keys to Keyserver. Use the default keyserver in the popup.</p>
-<p class="notes">Now someone who wants to send you an encrypted message can download your public key from the Internet. There are multiple keyservers that you can select from the menu when you upload, but they are all copies of each other, so it doesn't matter which one you use. However, it sometimes takes a few hours for them to match each other when a new key is uploaded.</p>
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div class="troubleshooting">
- <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
- <dl>
- <dt>The progress bar never finishes.</dt>
- <dd>Close the upload popup, make sure you are connected to the Internet, and try again. If that doesn't work, try again, selecting a different keyserver.</dd>
-<dt>My key doesnt appear in the list</dt>
- <dd>Try checking "Display All Keys by Default."</dd>
-
- <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
- <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
-
- </dl>
- </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
- </div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step-2b .step -->
+ <h3><em>Step 1.a</em> Space and Preparation</h3>
+ <p>Make sure the location you select has an easily accessible internet connection, and make backup plans in case the connection stops working on the day of the workshop. Try and get all the participants to set up an Enigmail-compatible email client before the event. Direct them to their organizations IT department or help page if they run into errors. Estimate that the workshop to take at a minimum 30 minutes plus about five to 10 minutes for each participant. Plan extra time for glitches and questions.</p>
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- <div id="terminology" class="step">
- <div class="main">
- <h3>GnuPG, OpenPGP, what?</h3>
- <p>In general, the terms GnuPG, GPG, GNU Privacy Guard, OpenPGP and PGP are used interchangeably. Technically, OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is the encryption standard, and GNU Privacy Guard (often shortened to GPG or GnuPG) is the program that implements the standard. Enigmail is a plug-in program for your email program that provides an interface for GnuPG.</p>
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</div>
</section><!-- End #section2 -->
-<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 3: Try it out ~~~~~~~~~ -->
+<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 2: Follow The Guide ~~~~~~~~~ -->
<section class="row" id="section3">
<div>
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<div class="section-intro">
- <h2><em>#3</em> Try it out!</h2>
- <p>Now you'll try a test correspondence with a computer program named Edward, which knows how to use encryption. Except where noted, these are the same steps you'd follow when corresponding with a real, live person.</p>
+ <h2><em>#2</em> Follow The Guide</h2>
+ <p>Have the participants work through the Email Self-Defense guide a step at a time on their own computers. Make sure all participants complete each step before the group moves on to the next step. Talk about each step, but be sure not to overload the participants with minutia. Pitch the bulk of your instruction to the least tech-savvy participants. Consider holding a secondary workshop afterwards for the outliers in either direction.</p>
- <p>NOTE: Edward is currently having some technical difficulties, so he may take a long time to respond, or not respond at all. We're sorry about this and we're working hard to fix it. Your key will still work even without testing with Edward.</p>
</div><!-- End .section-intro -->
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- <div id="step-3a" class="step">
+ <div id="step-2a" class="step">
<div class="sidebar">
- <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/en/screenshots/section3-try-it-out.png" alt="Try it out." /></p>
+ <p><img src="Email%20Self-Defense%20-%20a%20guide%20to%20fighting%20surveillance%20with%20GnuPG%20encryption_files/step2a-01-make-keypair.png" alt="Try it out."></p>
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<div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 3.a</em> Send Edward your public key</h3>
- <p>This is a special step that you won't have to do when corresponding with real people. In your email program's menu, go to Enigmail → Key Management. You should see your key in the list that pops up. Right click on your key and select Send Public Keys by Email. This will create a new draft message, as if you had just hit the Write button.</p>
-
-<p>Address the message to edward-en@fsf.org. Put at least one word (whatever you want) in the subject and body of the email. Don't send yet.</p>
-
-<p>There should be an icon of a yellow key in the bottom right of the composition window. This means that encryption is on, however, we want this first special message to Edward to be unencrypted. Click the key icon once to turn encryption off. The key should become grey, with a blue dot on it (to alert you that the setting has been changed from the default). Once encryption is off, hit Send.</p>
-
-<p class="notes">It may take two or three minutes for Edward to respond. In the meantime, you might want to skip ahead and check out the <a href="#section5">Use it Well</a> section of this guide. Once he's responded, head to the next step. From here on, you'll be doing just the same thing as when corresponding with a real person.</p>
+ <h3><em>Step 2.a</em> Public and Private Keys key</h3>
+ <p>Make sure all the participants have a conceptual understanding of the relationship between public and private keys in a keypair. It's normal for people to not understand public-key cryptography on the first try. Use analogies to help explain the concept.</p>
-<p>When you open Edward's reply, Enigmail may prompt you for your password before using your private key to decrypt it.</p>
</div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step-3a .step -->
+ </div><!-- End #step-2a .step -->
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- <div id="step-3b" class="step">
+ <div id="step-2b" class="step">
+<div class="sidebar">
+ <p><img src="Email%20Self-Defense%20-%20a%20guide%20to%20fighting%20surveillance%20with%20GnuPG%20encryption_files/section5-02-use-it-well.png" alt="Section 5: Use it Well" /></p>
+ </div><!-- /.sidebar -->
<div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 3.b</em> Send a test encrypted email</h3>
- <p>Write a new email in your email program, addressed to edward-en@fsf.org. Make the subject "Encryption test" or something similar and write something in the body.</p>
- <p>The key in the bottom right of the window should be yellow, meaning encryption is on. This will be your default from now on.</p>
- <p class="notes">Next to the key, you'll notice an icon of a pencil. Clicking this tells Enigmail to add a special, unique signature to your message, generated using your private key. This is a separate feature from encryption, and you don't have to use it for this guide.</p>
- <p>Click Send. Enigmail will pop up a window that says "Recipients not valid, not trusted or not found."</p>
-
- <p>To encrypt an email to Edward, you need his public key, so now you'll have Enigmail download it from a keyserver. Click Download Missing Keys and use the default in the pop-up that asks you to choose a keyserver. Once it finds keys, check the first one (Key ID starting with C), then select ok. Select ok in the next pop-up.</p>
-
- <p>Now you are back at the "Recipients not valid, not trusted or not found" screen. Check the box in front of Edward's key and click Send.</p>
-
-<p class="notes">Since you encrypted this email with Edward's public key, Edward's private key is required to decrypt it. Edward is the only one with his private key, so no one except him — not even you — can decrypt it.</p>
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div class="troubleshooting">
- <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
- <dl>
- <dt>Enigmail can't find Edward's key</dt>
- <dd>Close the pop-ups that have appeared since you clicked Send. Make sure you are connected to the Internet and try again. If that doesn't work, repeat the process, choosing a different keyserver when it asks you to pick one.</dd>
- <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
- <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
- </dl>
- </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
+ <h3><em>Step 2.b</em> Diceware and Passphrases</h3>
+ <p>Sufficiently strong passphrases <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/"> can't easily be brute forced</a>, and thus protect the private key even if it falls into the wrong hands. Recommend participants use the <a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html"> diceware method </a>, and have dice and the wordlist available for them to use. Participants who choose to use diceware should keep their passphrase with them at all at all times until they memorize it. Stress the importance of creating and backing up revocation certificates, especially to participants who write down their diceware passphrases.</p>
+ <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
+ <div class="troubleshooting">
+ <h4>Disclaimer</h4>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Diceware and Licensing</dt>
+ <dd>Something here about diceware's relationship with free software, or something.</dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
+
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- <div id="step-headers_unencrypted" class="step">
- <div class="main">
- <h3><em>Important:</em> Security tips</h3>
- <p>Even if you encrypted your email, the subject line is not encrypted, so don't put private information there. The sending and receiving addresses aren't encrypted either, so they could be read by a surveillance system. When you send attachments, Enigmail will give you an option of whether you want to encrypt them.</p>
-
- </div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step-headers_unencrypted .step-->
-
-
- <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ a div for each step ~~~~~~~~~ -->
- <div id="step-3c" class="step">
- <div class="main">
- <h3><em>Step 3.c</em> Receive a response</h3>
- <p>When Edward receives your email, he will use his private key to decrypt it, then use your public key (which you sent him in <a href="#step-3a">Step 3.A</a>) to encrypt his reply to you.</p>
-
- <p class="notes">It may take two or three minutes for Edward to respond. In the meantime, you might want to skip ahead and check out the <a href="#section5">Use it Well</a> section of this guide.</p>
- <p>When you receive Edward's email and open it, Enigmail will automatically detect that it is encrypted with your public key, and then it will use your private key to decrypt it.</p>
- <p>Notice the bar that Enigmail shows you above the message, with information about the status of Edward's key.</p>
- </div><!-- End .main -->
- </div><!-- End #step-3c .step -->
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- <h3><em>Step 3.d</em> Send a test signed email to a friend</h3>
- <p>Write a new email in your email program, addressed to a friend. If you want, tell them about this guide!</p>
- <p>Before sending the email, click the icon of the pencil in the bottom right of the composition window (it should turn yellow). This tells Enigmail to sign the email with you private key.</p>
- <p>After you click send, Enigmail will ask you for your password. It will do this any time it needs to use your public key.</p>
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- <h2><em>#4</em> Learn the Web of Trust</h2>
- <p>Email encryption is a powerful technology, but it has a weakness; it requires a way to verify that a person's public key is actually theirs. Otherwise, there would be no way to stop an attacker from making an email address with your friend's name, creating keys to go with it and impersonating your friend. That's why the free software programmers that developed email encryption created keysigning and the Web of Trust.</p>
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-<p>When you sign someone's key, you are publicly saying that you trust that it does belong to them and not an impostor. People who use your public key can see the number of signatures it has. Once you've used GnuPG for a long time, you may have hundreds of signatures. The Web of Trust is the constellation of all GnuPG users, connected to each other by chains of trust expressed through signatures, forming a giant network. The more signatures a key has, and the more signatures its signers' keys have, the more trustworthy that key is.</p>
+ <h2><em>#3</em> Sign Keys</h2>
+ <p>Emphasize the distinction between trusting a person subjectively, and seeing whose keys they've signed objectively. Without a proper understanding of trust, the beautiful transative trust properties of the web of trust are lost. Since trust is an internal and subjective thing, it's unnecessary for participants to share how much they trust another participant with anyone else.</p>
-<p>People's public keys are usually identified by their key fingerprint, which is a string of digits like F357AA1A5B1FA42CFD9FE52A9FF2194CC09A61E8 (for Edward's key). You can see the fingerprint for your public key, and other public keys saved on your computer, by going to Enigmail → Key Management in your email program's menu, then right clicking on the key and choosing Key Properties. It's good practice to share your fingerprint wherever you share your email address, so that people can double-check that they have the correct public key when they download yours from a keyserver.</p>
+<p>Have the participants download each other's keys, read out their own fingerprints, and present their IDs to each other. Help participants navigate the interface to sign each other's keys, and encourage participants to assign each other trust levels if they already know each other.</p>
-<p class="notes">You may also see public keys referred to by their key ID, which is simply the last 8 digits of the fingerprint, like C09A61E8 for Edward. The key ID is visible directly from the Key Management window. This key ID is like a person's first name (it is a useful shorthand but may not be unique to a given key), whereas the fingerprint actually identifies the key uniquely without the possibility of confusion. If you only have the key ID, you can still look up the key (as well as its fingerprint), like you did in Step 3, but if multiple options appear, you'll need the fingerprint of the person to whom are trying to communicate to verify which one to use.</p>
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+ <p><img src="Email%20Self-Defense%20-%20a%20guide%20to%20fighting%20surveillance%20with%20GnuPG%20encryption_files/section4-web-of-trust.png" alt="Section 4: Web of Trust"></p>
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<h3><em>Step 4.a</em> Sign a key</h3>
- <p>In your email program's menu, go to Enigmail → Key Management.</p>
+ <p>In your email program's menu, go to Enigmail → Key Management.</p>
<p>Right click on Edward's public key and select Sign Key from the context menu.</p>
<p>In the window that pops up, select "I will not answer" and click ok.</p>
- <p>Now you should be back at the Key Management menu. Select Keyserver → Upload Public Keys and hit ok.</p>
- <p class="notes">You've just effectively said "I trust that Edward's public key actually belongs to Edward." This doesn't mean much because Edward isn't a real person, but it's good practice.</p>
+ <p>Now you should be back at the Key Management menu. Select Keyserver → Upload Public Keys and hit ok.</p>
+ <p class="notes">You've just effectively said "I trust that
+Edward's public key actually belongs to Edward." This doesn't mean much
+because Edward isn't a real person, but it's good practice.</p>
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<h3><em>Important:</em> check people's identification before signing their keys</h3>
- <p>Before signing a real person's key, always make sure it actually belongs to them, and that they are who they say they are. Ask them to show you their ID (unless you trust them very highly) and their public key fingerprint -- not just the shorter public key ID, which could refer to another key as well. In Enigmail, answer honestly in the window that pops up and asks "How carefully have you verified that the key you are about to sign actually belongs to the person(s) named above?".</p>
+ <p>Before signing a real person's key, always make sure it
+actually belongs to them, and that they are who they say they are. Ask
+them to show you their ID (unless you trust them very highly) and their
+public key fingerprint -- not just the shorter public key ID, which
+could refer to another key as well. In Enigmail, answer honestly in the
+window that pops up and asks "How carefully have you verified that the
+key you are about to sign actually belongs to the person(s) named
+above?".</p>
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- <h2><em>#5</em> Use it well</h2>
-<p>Everyone uses GnuPG a little differently, but it's important to follow some basic practices to keep your email secure. Not following them, you risk the privacy of the people you communicate with, as well as your own, and damage the Web of Trust.</p>
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- <h3>When should I encrypt?</h3>
+ <h2><em>#4</em> Explain the pitfalls</h2>
+<p>Remind participants that encryption works only where it's explicitly used; they won't be able to send an encrypted email to someone who hasn't set up encrption already. Also remind them to make sure encryption is selected before hitting send. Explain metadata to the participants, and advise them to use bland-sounding subject lines.</p>
- <p>The more you can encrypt your messages, the better. If you only encrypt emails occasionally, each encrypted message could raise a red flag for surveillance systems. If all or most of your email is encrypted, people doing surveillance won't know where to start.</p>
-
-<p>That's not to say that only encrypting some of your email isn't helpful -- it's a great start and it makes bulk surveillance more difficult.</p>
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- <h3><em>Important:</em> Be wary of invalid keys</h3>
- <p>GnuPG makes email safer, but it's still important to watch out for invalid keys, which might have fallen into the wrong hands. Email encrypted with invalid keys might be readable by surveillance programs.</p>
- <p>In your email program, go back to the second email that Edward sent you. Because Edward encrypted it with your public key, it will have a message from Enigmail at the top, which most likely says "Enigmail: Part of this message encrypted."</p>
-<p><b>When using GnuPG, make a habit of glancing at that bar. The program will warn you there if you get an email encrypted with a key that can't be trusted.</b></p>
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- <h3>Copy your revocation certificate to somewhere safe</h3>
- <p>Remember when you created your keys and saved the revocation certificate that GnuPG made? It's time to copy that certificate onto the safest digital storage that you have -- the ideal thing is a flash drive, disk, or hard drive stored in a safe place in your home.</p>
-<p>If your private key ever gets lost or stolen, you'll need this certificate file to let people know that you are no longer using that keypair.</p>
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- <h3><em>Important:</em> act swiftly if someone gets your private key</h3>
- <p>If you lose your private key or someone else gets ahold of it (say, by stealing or cracking your computer), it's important to revoke it immediately before someone else uses it to read your encrypted email. This guide doesn't cover how to revoke a key, but you can follow the <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN305">instructions on the GnuPG site</a>. After you're done revoking, send an email to everyone with whom you usually use your key to make sure they know.</p>
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- <h3>Make your public key part of your online identity</h3>
- <p> First add your public key fingerprint to your email signature, then compose an email to at least five of your friends, telling them you just set up GnuPG and mentioning your public key fingerprint. Link to this guide and ask them to join you. Don't forget that there's also an awesome <a href="infographic.html">infographic to share.</a></p>
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-<p class="notes">Start writing your public key fingerprint anywhere someone would see your email address: your social media profiles, blog, Website, or business card. (At the Free Software Foundation, we put ours on our <a href="https://fsf.org/about/staff">staff page</a>.) We need to get our culture to the point that we feel like something is missing when we see an email address without a public key fingerprint.</p>
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+<p>Advocate for free software, for without it, we can't meaningfully resist invasions of our digital privacy and autonomy. Explain the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html">dangers</a> of running a proprietary system, and why GnuPG can't begin to mitigate them.</p>
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