Community-Driven Cryptography Project
The Community-Driven Cryptography Project is an intentional space for the exploration of how cryptography intersects with society. Our purpose is to design and create more just and equitable technical solutions that explicitly benefit marginalized communities. In this process, we aim to better educate ourselves and others on the specific security and privacy needs of marginalized communities. This seminar hopes to build an interdisciplinary community of cryptographers, social scientists, humanities scholars, industry practitioners, community-based organizations, etc and contribute to the broadening of access to this field.
Calendar
Weekly meetings are held every other Thursday from 12-1pm ET. Feel free to reach out to either Alishah or Leah to receive the calendar invite and zoom link!Activities
Fall 2022
- Workshop: Digital Privacy for High School Students
- Topics: Institutional Surveillance, Everyday Privacy, and Cryptography Basics
- Resources and Notes Coming Soon
April 2022
- Discussion: Surveillance and Immigration
- N.S. Guliani, H. Rudolph, P. Shah, A. Winston. Color of Surveillance: Tracking Immigrant Bodies.
March 2022
- Discussion: COINTELPRO
- Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations (The Church Committee). Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (The Church Report).
- S. Kamara. COINTELPRO.
- B. Rodríguez. Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI: 1971.
February 2022
- Discussion: Cryptography for the People
- S. Kamara. Crypto for the People (Part 2).
December 2021
- Speaker: Rikke Jensen
- M. Albrecht, J. Blasco, R. Jensen, L. Mareková. Collective Information Security in Large-Scale Urban Protests: the Case of Hong Kong. (Video)
November 2021
- Speaker: Alex LeClerc and Glencora Borradaile
- G. Borradaile, K. Kretschmer, M. Gretes, A. LeClerc. The Motivated Can Encrypt (Even with PGP). (Video)
November 2021
- Speaker: Kentrell Owens
- K. Owens, C. Cobb, L. Cranor. “You Gotta Watch What You Say”: Surveillance of Communication with Incarcerated People. (Video)
October 2021
- Discussion: Community-Driven Cryptography
- P. Rogaway. The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work. (Video)
- R. Abebe, S. Barocas, J. Kleinberg, K. Levy, M. Raghavan, D. Robinson. Roles for Computing in Social Change. (Video)
Resources
Courses
- Algorithms for the People, Brown University
- The Color of Surveillance: Law and History, Georgetown University
- Communications Security and Social Movements, Oregon State University
- Seeing the Invisible, University of California San Diego
Organizers
- Alishah Chator, Johns Hopkins University
- Seny Kamara, Brown University
- Lucy Qin, Brown University
- Leah Namisa Rosenbloom, Brown University