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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: testingtesting123 on April 25, 2012, 08:54 pm

Title: vidalia tor bundle
Post by: testingtesting123 on April 25, 2012, 08:54 pm
I see that people have discussed the security risks of Midori, Liberte and to a lesser extent Tails, how does the tor browser bundle, using vidalia stack up?

I connect via a VPN, then log into Tor, however I would like to access SR by booting from a USB flash drive running linux and the tor browser, is it possible to create a truecryyypt volume on the flashdrive and still boot from it? I dont quite understand how i can get my PC to boot from a password protected USB flash drive

Any help would be appreciated
Title: Re: vidalia tor bundle
Post by: CaliTrees on April 25, 2012, 09:12 pm
Liberte uses dm-crypt modules to encrypt your partitions.  I have my swap partition encrypted using /dev/random on each boot.  From my understanding as long as you are using strong ciphers then this is just as secure as a truecrypt volume.  I think truecrypt has other techniques like hiding volumes that isn't accomplished with dm-crypt.  But as far as the data being protected with a key or passphrase, dm-crypt does a great job.  I'm not a fan of liberte but dm-crypt on gentoo or archlinux is pretty slick.   But on a USB I think you want liberte.  What were the security issues you heard about liberte?