[tor-talk] tor-ramdisk 20120601 released

[Anthony G. Basile]

Hi everyone

I want to announce to the list that a new release of tor-ramdisk is out. 
Tor-ramdisk is an i686, x86_64 or MIPS uClibc-based micro Linux 
distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an 
environment that maximizes security and privacy. Security is enhanced by 
hardening the kernel and binaries, and privacy is enhanced by forcing 
logging to be off at all levels so that even the Tor operator only has 
access to minimal information. Finally, since everything runs in 
ephemeral memory, no information survives a reboot, except for the Tor 
configuration file and the private RSA key, which may be 
exported/imported by FTP or SCP.

Changelog:

This release incorporates major changes from upstream to all components 
of tor-ramdisk: tor was updated to 0.2.2.36, libevent to 2.0.18, openssh 
to 6.0p1, busybox to 1.20.0, uclibc to 0.9.33.2 and the kernel was 
updated to 3.2.11 plus Gentoo's hardened-patches-3.2.11-1.extras. The 
MIPS port also incorporated these changes, but only for this 
architecture was libevent update to 2.0.19 and the kernel to 3.2.5.


i686:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk
Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk-downloads

x86_64:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-x86_64-ramdisk
Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-x86_64-ramdisk-downloads

MIPS:
Homepage: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-mips-ramdisk
Download: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-mips-ramdisk-downloads


-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
(716) 829-8197