Tinfoil Hat Linux

Tinfoil Hat Linux is a secure, single floppy, bootable Linux distribution for storing PGP keys and then encrypting, signing and wiping files. At some point it became an exercise in over-engineering.

You may want to Tinfoil Hat Linux when ....


 * You're using a computer that could have a keystroke logger installed. keyghost.com is an example of a tiny & cheap hardware loggers. There are smaller & cheaper ones out there, and they're all hard to notice. Look for them the next time you're using a public terminal at a convention or hosting facility.
 * Using your personal GPG keys at work, school or a web cafe where you don't trust or own the equipment.
 * If you maintain a PGP Certificate Authority and have to have a safe place to use the CA key.
 * If you're with witness.org &/or have to hide the very fact that you have PGP.
 * If you simply don't want to risk putting a PGP key on a hard drive where someone else might have access to it.
 * The Illuminati are watching your computer, and you need to use morse code to blink out your PGP messages on the numlock key.


 * source code for files on the floppy
 * new 2.0 pre-release: http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/testing.html
 * FAQ: http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/faq.html