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Technical Design and Conception of Kicksecure
Technical Design[edit]
- systemcheck
- SSL
- Dev/About Computer (In)Security
- VirtualBox
- Dev/Entropy
- Security Reviews and Feedback, Press, Media
- Dev/Expected Build Warnings
- Dev/Relationship With Upstream
- Dev/About Infrastructure
- Trusting Kicksecure
- Verified Boot (Secure Boot)
- Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems, Verifiable Systems, Clear Linux, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue
- bootstrappable builds
- Automatic Updates (APT) - to Use or Not Use Them
- APT Signing Key Folders
- Package Manager Graphical
- One Click Update Script - Simplified, Assisted Updates
- About Debian Packaging
- Versioning Format Conventions for packages developed under the Kicksecure hat
- Stable Version User Experience
- maintainability
- Privacy Goals and Non-Goals
- Coding Style
- RAM Wipe, cryptsetup suspend
- non-freedom, proprietary, closed source firmware, CPU microcode and drivers
- filesystem
ext4,btrfs,zfs - image formats:
.iso,.img,.raw
Future Technical Design[edit]
- Security Roadmap
- Permanent Takedown Attack Defender, proposal to defend a permanent takedown threat
- Project / Emergency News
- apt revoker
- Dev/remount-secure - Secure Mount Options
- Proposal: Base Distribution Developers = Derivative Developers
- Confidential Computing, Secure Cloud, Encrypted RAM, Remote Attestation
General Developer Pages[edit]
- Developer Portal
- Development of System Image Creation and Bootstrapping Tools
- Git branches
- Debian APT Repository on the Blockchain?
- APT Repository (Kicksecure Debian Package Maintenance) (.deb), reprepro
- Hosting a Kicksecure Mirror
- Why we should avoid APT Pinning / preferences / backports by default
- kicksecure.com backup script, to make a backup of most kicksecure.com content
- Qubes Split GPG
- Firewall Refactoring
- Firejail
- Host Keys in various Virtualizers / special keys
- Ledger Hardware Wallet Development Notes
- AEM - anti evil maid
- Mobile Operating System Comparison
- Non Anonymous NAT Traversal
- Dev/Licensing
- bash script security, proper whitespace handling, use of end of options parameter
- certification / audit
- Windows 10 Issues collection
- Warrant Canary Draft
- VirusForget - deactivate malware after reboot from non-root compromise
- Boot Clock Randomization
- user-sysmaint-split - Role-Based Boot Modes (user versus sysmaint) for Enhanced Security
- Boot Process Related Development Notes
- Open Source Business Models
- Donation systray
- systemd dependency cycles
- seccomp
- audio, ALSA, PulseAudio, PipeWire
- Dev/Debian
- Comparison of secureblue with Kicksecure and Development Notes
archived:
- Comparing Password Managers, finding out best choice as default installed one
- grsecurity
- Dev/yubikey
- Dev/Astra Linux
- Dev/GNOME
- Dev/KDE
- Dev/openSUSE
Website Developer Pages[edit]
- MediaWiki Developer Notes
- Website Enhancements Planning
- Wiki Editor Documentation
- Wiki Editor Todo
- Documentation Guidelines
- Documentation Markup Format Converters
- OpenPGP Signed Website
- guidelines for advertising on kicksecure.com
- Affiliate Conditions (VPN etc.)
- web.archive.org snapshot using command line interface (CLI)
- Privacy Policy Technical Details of the Kicksecure Website
- Technical Design Documentation about SSL Certificate Pinning
Download / Installation - Developer Pages[edit]
- Download Security
- Software Verification (OpenPGP / gpg) Usability Issues / Secure Downloader to Download Kicksecure Images
Other Related[edit]
- Documentation
- Build Documentation, How to build Kicksecure from Source Code, How to update Kicksecure from Source Code
- Kicksecure Source Code
- Kicksecure Developer Meta Files, Scripts for managing the Kicksecure GNU/Linux Distribution
- Maintenance, The Tor Project (TPO) apt repository package mirroring to whonix.org repository, Tor Browser hardcoded version file
- Redistribution Pre Building (Only required if you want to redistribute (official) Kicksecure release builds.)
- Redistribution Post Building (Only required if you want to redistribute (official) Kicksecure release builds.)
- Network Manager nmcli https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2904
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Just Listing[edit]
TODO[edit]
- https://forums.whonix.org/tag/status_open_issue_todo
- https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tiger
- https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tiger-otheros
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