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.

New testing version of tinfoilhat

Tinfoil hat linux files

• readme.txt, also on the floppy image
• The source code for files on the floppy
• The tinfoilhat linux floppy image plus disk signature file. If your browser has problems with the .img file, you can try downloading this Gzip compressed image
  Transfer this image to disk using rawrite (on windows), dd on unix (dd if=tinfoil.img of=/dev/floppy), or Diskcopy on a MAC.

FAQ

Links

• Aluminum foil deflector beanie from zapatopi
• Tinfoil Suits! from lessemf.com
• The man in the Tinfoil Hat . A good example for people confused by the tinfoil hat reference. includes both a tinfoil hat explanation and the author's cathartic rant.
• http://www.gnupg.org
• Joelm's comprehensive TEMPEST site.
• Tempest for Eliza A fun tool for observing the radiation from your computer. If anybody ports this to Direct FB, I'll put it on tinfoil hat in a flash.
• Diceware a tool for generating very secure passphrases.

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