[tor-relays] new relay package for Ubuntu 16.04+

[teor]

> On 31 Aug 2016, at 15:20, Chad MILLER <chad at cornsilk.net> wrote:
> 
> But it can never look in your ~/.gnupg/ dir or grab your scanner or wipe your yubikey or turn on your camera or whatever, as another program, rogue or compromised, could do. None of that even seems to exist.

If it shares physical RAM with other processes or VMs, it can modify their RAM, under certain conditions:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/powerful_bit-fl.html

Unfortunately, VMs and similar isolation techniques aren't great at preventing hardware-based side-channels.

But in most cases, for most threat models, yes, it's quite secure.

Tim

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