From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LI6r2-0003yC-FE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:35:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E151E04CA; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from virtualblueness.net (adsl43.buffnet.net [204.117.5.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B024DE04CA for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:35:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.7] (yellowsprite.dite [192.168.2.7]) by virtualblueness.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A5D2C4029 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:35:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <495BC984.2030804@opensource.dyc.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:35:32 -0500 From: basile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat 20081229 released X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b3960e35-d1b5-4012-9eb7-86da30c92663 X-Archives-Hash: 0372522054fdb948df57b185e696086d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I'd like to make the list aware that there is a new release of Tin Hat out. For those unfamiliar, Tin Hat is a fully featured Linux desktop based on Hardened Gentoo which runs purely in RAM. It aims to be very secure, stable, and fast. Thanks to the dedicated Gentoo developers, our group continues to put together a tightly knit hardened destkop environment. This release has some major feature enhancements. Primarly, one can now "save" a running Tin Hat system to an ISO image or pen drive, thus one can implement and retain customizations to the OS. An added benefit is that now Tin Hat releases are no longer built from VMware templates but from prestine running Tin Hat systems, all purely in RAM. Saving a running system and building a new release is in essence the same process. The bash scripts are the key, and one can use them to "ramify" any Linux system as we have already done to other customized Gentoo systems which we use for teaching. As a side note to a recent discussion on the list, I hope that Tin Hat furthers the cause of hardening on a desktop. The question of whether the enormous effort is worth it might be mitigated by the fact that much of the work has already been done in a prebuild reference system. Home page: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat Downloads: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tinhat-downloads Anthony Basile, Ph.D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 USA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklbyYQACgkQl5yvQNBFVTUnUQCeKPL5AiCgOWd76zvUdElRIqfs i1YAn3CWN4I2rSE6Wpawe8brjLWSMR9V =I3ei -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----