Dashamir Hoxha

Usually containers are used to run services, but why not run a full desktop on them? It is possible, it is useful (not just for testing), and it is more efficient and convenient than using virtual machines. In this presentation I will demonstrate how to run different desktops (Xfce, LMDE, MATE, Cinnamon, KDE) on containers. We will try both Docker and LXC/LXD containers.

for remote collaboration in a virtual classroom

Virtual Computer Lab is a desktop server in the cloud that can be accessed from a browser. It provides remote collaboration for the students of a class and their teacher. Each user can share his desktop with one or more other users and they can work on it collaboratively. The teacher can also use Epoptes to watch what each of the students is doing, to broadcast his screen to all of them, to access the desktop of each of the students to help them, etc.

If you use OpenPGP to secure your email communication, you should consider publishing your public key using Web Key Directory. It allows email clients to automatically retrieve your public key, using the HTTPS protocol. Building a WKD for yourself (or for the members of your organization) is very easy and only requires basic skills in web server administration

WireGuard is a simple, fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It is quite flexible and can be used in many situations. In this workshop we will see how to install a WG server with docker-scripts, some of the usecases supported by it, and we will test/demonstrate a couple of them.

There are scads of options presented by GnuPG, which are all part of making it the flexible and powerful an encryption framework that it is. But it's extremely complicated to get started with, and that quite reasonably puts people off.

EasyGnuPG is a wrapper script that tries to simplify the process of using GnuPG. In order to simplify things, it is opinionated about the "right" way to use GnuPG.

The philosophic goals here are these:

1. Make GPG as easy to use as possible. The more people using strong encryption, the better for everyone. One of the big hang ups right now is that the GPG tools are difficult to use - more so than they strictly have to be.

2. Make the interface itself auditable. This is why this is presented as shell scripts rather than a web service or a GUI. If you're concerned about what egpg does, open up the files and read them, or have someone you trust read them.

3. Build a guide forward. The simplified interface provided here should be good to get started with, and with luck many users will find they never need anything beyond what egpg provides. If you find that you need to do something more, though, the goal is that you have a foundation to start with, and some direction on how to proceed.

4. Make it customizable. If it doesn't fit your workflow, adapt and extend it to fit your way of doing things. Share your extensions with the others too.