[ISN] Tinfoil Hat Linux
R. A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Wed Feb 20 10:44:25 EST 2002
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http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/
What is Tinfoil Hat Linux?
It started as a secure, single floppy, bootable Linux distribution for
storing PGP keys and then encrypting, signing and wiping files. At
some point it became an exercise in over-engineering.
Tinfoil hat is useful if:
* You're using a computer that could have a keystroke logger
installed. http://www.keyghost.com is an example of a tiny &
cheap hardware logger.
* You need to use your personal GPG keys at work, school or a web
hosting facility where you don't trust or own the equipment.
* If you maintain a PGP Certificate Authority or signing key and have
to have a safe place to use the CA key.
* If you simply don't want to risk putting a PGP key on a hard drive
where someone else might have access to it.
* The Illuminati are watching your computer, and you need to use morse
code to blink out your PGP messages on the numlock key.
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at ibuc.com>
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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