CDR: Mootos

[Ken Brown]

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