[tor-talk] Tor-ramdisk 20151215 released

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Mon Dec 21 17:30:35 UTC 2015


nice work!
openssh update is important and kernel updates also great goin to try it 
out(Y)
On 2015-12-16 01:36, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I want to announce that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out.
> Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only
> purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes
> security and privacy.  Security is enhanced by hardening the kernel and
> binaries, and privacy is enhanced by forcing logging to be off 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 or SCP.
> 
> 
> Changelog:
> Tor was updated to version 0.2.7.6, busybox to 1.24.1, openssh to
> 7.4_p1, and the kernel to 4.2.6 plus Gentoo's
> hardened-patches-4.2.6-8.extras.  We also switched from openssl to
> libressl 2.2.5.
> 
> i686:
> Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk
> Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk-downloads
> 
> x86_64:
> Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-x86_64-ramdisk
> Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-x86_64-ramdisk-downloads
> 
> 
> --
> Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
> Chair of Information Technology
> D'Youville College
> Buffalo, NY 14201
> (716) 829-8197



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