Tor-ramdisk 20080606 released.

Scott Bennett bennett at cs.niu.edu
Tue Jun 10 19:24:03 UTC 2008


     On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:06:57 -0400 basile <basile at opensource.dyc.edu>
wrote:
>We would like to announce a new release of Tor-ramdisk (version
>20080606), an i686 uClibc-based micro Linux distro (about 3.1MB ISO)
>whose only purpose is to host a tor server in an environment which
>maximizes security and privacy.  Security is enhanced by employing a
>monolithically compiled GRSEC/PAX patched kernel and hardened system
>tools. Privacy is enhanced by turning off logging at all levels so
>that even the Tor operator only has access to minimal information.
>Finally, since everything runs in ephemeral memory, no information
>survives a reboot, except for the Tor configuration file and the
>private RSA key which may be exported/imported by FTP.
>
     Just out of curiousity, why did you choose LINUX for this project?
If security is such a high priority, I would have thought that OpenBSD
would have been the operating system of choice.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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