There has recently been some discussion on UKcrypto of a hypothesised
eavesdropping-safe boot CD containing OS & necessary software to get
encrypted IP links to a (predetermined?) safe site.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairbrother/
The "won't be able to import files" and so on sounds familiar from a
long time ago. Isn't this the case in the maximum implementation of the
old coloured book standards? (Too boring to look it up)
Also I'd like to see a "multi-platform CD that users boot from" that
would work with OC, Mac, Sun etc...
Ken
first few lines:
> Moot! is a cryptosuite designed to avoid RIPA pt3
> and govermnent access to keys/plaintext in general.
> All storage is in an offshore data haven.
> Moot! is designed to consist of a multi-platform
> CD that users boot from. It is designed to be hard to
> emulate in software.
> It's also open-source, free if I can get enough help,
> or at least cheap, and I plan to publish the security
> designs and ask for comments and suggestions
> (and help!) before actually implementing anything.
> It works sort of like this:
> in the box (on the CD): w/p, spreadsheet,
> database s/w etc: crypto package: comms s/w eg TCP/IP,
> modem and ethernet drivers etc.: minimal operating
> system: no local storage