29.12.2024 –, Saal Y 06 (Stonewall IO)
Sprache: English
Rosenpass is a free and open source software to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection secure against quantum computers, i.e., post-quantum secure. Rosenpass builds upon WireGuard. Come to get an introduction and guidance to set it up!
This workshop aims to be a lightweight and easy-to-access install party for Rosenpass: just come and let us help you set up Rosenpass, and try out your first test connection to either another participant's setup, or to a test server provided by us. Participants should bring a computer with Linux installed. Wir können auch auf Deutsch Hilfestellung geben und Fragen beantworten.
We will start the session with a really short introduction to Rosenpass, to give the participants some context. Afterwards, we will get right to it and guide participants during installation and setup of Rosenpass in a standard use case together with WireGuard.
During the session, it will also be possible to ask us anything related to Rosenpass, post-quantum cryptography and the post-quantum transition. We will try to find the time to answer while hopping between participant's laptops to help during setup.
Rosenpass is free and open-source software based on the latest research in the field of cryptography. It is intended to be used with WireGuard VPN, but can work with all software that uses pre-shared keys. It uses two cryptographic methods (Classic McEliece and Kyber) to secure systems against attacks with quantum computers.
Rosenpass is also a science communication project that intends to make cryptography easy to understand for everyone. Check out our website, where we have introduction texts for people who do not know a lot about computers, for tech journalists, for developers, and for cryptographers.
Benjamin Lipp is a cryptographer, researcher, and IT security consultant. He is part of the collective working on Rosenpass, an open science and open source project developing a post-quantum secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) protocol and software.
Karolin Varner has had a thirteen-year career in the tech industry and in science and has been a part of the chaose community even longer. She started out as a software developer in 2012 and has been in charge of the development of complex software projects from the very beginning. In 2018, she began to focus primarily on cryptography and computer security. Since the beginning of 2024, she has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy to devote herself to scientific research into cryptographic network protocols and research into software development methods for cryptographic applications. She is the first chairperson of Rosenpass e.V. and leads the Rosenpass project introducing post-quantum security for WireGuard. She is active in the CCC and in the feminist hacker group Haecksen in particular. She supports the Haecksen infrastructure team in running the server infrastructure with her technical experience and starte the local Hannover feminist hacker group Megahertz.