[SLL] secure USB thumb drive linux distro?

Chad R Mayfield chad at planetmayfield.com
Wed Nov 18 13:27:36 PST 2009


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ted Stern <dodecatheon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in putting together a customized secure thumb drive
> linux distribution as a demo project.
>
> Primary goals:
>
>  - Security, security, security.  This OS should make any HW safe to
>    run on, and provide a safe environment from which to connect to a
>    secure network from outside the firewall, via secure VPN.
>

It has partially been done by a few people.  The one that sticks out in my
mind is, http://bcable.net/system.php.  Of course this is using a customized
GRML live cd and loaded into a ramdrive each boot, but I don't see why you
could not do something similar with a flash drive.

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