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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: GiveUsSome on November 12, 2012, 08:39 pm

Title: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: GiveUsSome on November 12, 2012, 08:39 pm
I'm making up a few USB drives for a couple of mates.

I use Ubuntu which has a little annoying bug with GPA. I was hoping to avoid the whole issue by just downloading a linux distro that had GPA and TOR Pre-installed (i dont really care about tor preinstalled, i  just want GPA pre-installed so i dont have to fix the bug)
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: SRtester on November 12, 2012, 09:25 pm
I use Liberte Linux, USB bootable thumb drive. Has EVERYTHING you need. Includes Tor-ified browser, PGP client, and much more you'd expect from a real (albeit lightweight) OS. It will store bookmarks, PGP keychain, any other files you want, and it's encrypted & password protected.
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: GiveUsSome on November 12, 2012, 11:23 pm
I use Liberte Linux, USB bootable thumb drive. Has EVERYTHING you need. Includes Tor-ified browser, PGP client, and much more you'd expect from a real (albeit lightweight) OS. It will store bookmarks, PGP keychain, any other files you want, and it's encrypted & password protected.

excellent :) thanks
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: CoolGrey on November 12, 2012, 11:54 pm
Almost all Linux distributions come with GPG pre-installed. However, often it doesn't come with a GUI (a graphical user interface like GPA or Kleopatra). To use GPG, you have to use the command line (also called the terminal).

Here is a good guide on using GPG through the command line.

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=35022.0

You can install Tor yourself very easily by just downloading and extracting the latest bundle.
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: GiveUsSome on November 13, 2012, 12:03 am
Almost all Linux distributions come with GPG pre-installed. However, often it doesn't come with a GUI (a graphical user interface like GPA or Kleopatra). To use GPG, you have to use the command line (also called the terminal).

Here is a good guide on using GPG through the command line.

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=35022.0

You can install Tor yourself very easily by just downloading and extracting the latest bundle.

yeah i meant GPA (the nice pretty graphical gui that has notepad)

theres an error with it on ubuntu.. i fixed it once, but i forget how i did it aand i cant be bothered going back and fixing it again
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: CoolGrey on November 13, 2012, 12:08 am
Yes, Liberté comes with GPA and Ubuntu doesn't. However I like Ubuntu overall so much that I accepted that and learned to use GPG through the command line. Now I don't want to go back because it's fast and gives you a lot of options.

But, you can also try to install Kleopatra on Ubuntu. You can find it in the software center.
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: GiveUsSome on November 13, 2012, 12:53 am
Yes, Liberté comes with GPA and Ubuntu doesn't. However I like Ubuntu overall so much that I accepted that and learned to use GPG through the command line. Now I don't want to go back because it's fast and gives you a lot of options.

But, you can also try to install Kleopatra on Ubuntu. You can find it in the software center.

liberete seems prety bloody secure.

1 question. where is the Tor console? to change identities ect.
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: Zulu on November 13, 2012, 02:16 am
does anyone sell these?
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: GiveUsSome on November 13, 2012, 02:25 am
im making up a few for friends. its pretty easy to follow the instructions.

1 last question.. is it possible to change the passphrase for the encryption on the harddrive?
Title: Re: Linux Distro with PGP & Tor pre-installed
Post by: GiveUsSome on November 13, 2012, 02:32 am
sorted it.

log in as root:
cryptsetup luksChangeKey /mnt/boot/otfe/liberte.vol

rm /mnt/boot/otfe/liberte.vol-hdr.bak

cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /mnt/boot/otfe/liberte.vol --header-backup-file /mnt/boot/otfe/liberte.vol-hdr.bak