Room : University of York, G/020 Date : 17 October 2006 Time : 19:00 -- 20:00 Speaker : Jan Tobias Muehlberg Title : Securing Your E-Mail Abstract: The talk will scratch the basic principles of cryptography. I will demonstrate in detail how cryptographic techniques as implemented in the GNU Privacy Guard [1] can be used by everybody in order to secure one's personal e-mail communication. The talk will cover the topics of key generation, encryption and decryption, digital signatures as well as fancy encryption hardware such as the GnuPG smartcard. [1]: http://www.gnupg.org