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Title: Secure Boot disk for Electrum/Armory/Bitcoin etc Post by: greBit on November 07, 2013, 12:35:28 PM Thought I would repost here as it may be useful to some Electrum users and it would be great to get some feedback :)
I've recently been playing around with Ubuntu with the aim of developing user-customizable live CD/DVDs/USB disks. It works as follows: 1. User downloads(or builds) and burns a liveDisk .iso image. 2. User boots it up. Adds software. Creates encrypted wallets. Makes it pretty. 3. User 'reproduces' the system as a new .iso and writes it to CD/DVD or USB disk ... I currently have a very basic bitcoin livedisk version which can be downloaded (768mb) here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4kVxAbllVkIWXhKZlo3bXJyS00/edit?usp=sharing It contains:
Screen shots: https://i.imgur.com/9Noej6L.png https://i.imgur.com/LL5vsxp.png I also have a GUI-less, Bitcoin-tool-less, bootstrap.iso at 387mb, here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4kVxAbllVkIQWlTbmF2UGxRUFE/edit?usp=sharing Of course, everything can also be built manually. The build process is as follows: Building the bootstrap.iso 1. Install Vagrant www.vagrantup.com Code: git clone git://github.com/willish/livedisk_bootstrap.git . Building the liveDisk-bitcoin distro 1. Find a decent sized USB flash disk (8gb would do nicely). **This will be completely wiped!** 2. Boot the 'bootstrap.iso`. Select 3rd boot option (with flash storage) 3. `sudo livedisk-init-flash /dev/sdX` (where /dev/sdX is replaced by the path to your USB device) 4. `sudo livedisk-install bitcoin` (and wait a while!) 5. Reboot and again select 3rd boot option 6. Customize your distro! Save your modified distro to a new .iso 1. `sudo livedisk-reproduce flash` to make your customized liveDisk .iso Title: Re: Secure Boot disk for Electrum/Armory/Bitcoin etc Post by: btcven on November 10, 2013, 10:17:39 AM Why would you run a LiveDisk with the apps bundled (probably modified) rather than download them from a trust source (like their websites) and install them yourself?
Title: Re: Secure Boot disk for Electrum/Armory/Bitcoin etc Post by: greBit on November 12, 2013, 10:10:16 AM The idea is that users would be able to build and customize their own bootable environments, without trusting me :)
I also would never trust an application I have not built myself with my private keys. I have simply made a couple of scripts which download and build Ubuntu+BitcoinQt+Armory+etc from their sources. It also allows you to start from a very simple clean boot environment, customize it, and reproduce it as a 'child' ISO image. Admittedly I need to tidy this up a lot but it would be nice to have a couple of alpha testers. |
