Secure Boot disk for Electrum/Armory/Bitcoin etc

greBit

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The idea is that users would be able to build and customize their own bootable environments, without trusting me

I also would never trust an application I have not built myself with my private keys. I have simply made a couple of scripts which download and build Ubuntu+BitcoinQt+Armory+etc from their sources.

It also allows you to start from a very simple clean boot environment, customize it, and reproduce it as a 'child' ISO image.

Admittedly I need to tidy this up a lot but it would be nice to have a couple of alpha testers.

btcven

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Bitcoin Venezuela

Why would you run a LiveDisk with the apps bundled (probably modified) rather than download them from a trust source (like their websites) and install them yourself?

greBit

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Thought I would repost here as it may be useful to some Electrum users and it would be great to get some feedback

Quote from: greBit on June 13, 2013, 08:26:36 AM

I've recently been playing around with Ubuntu with the aim of developing user-customizable live CD/DVDs/USB disks.

It works as follows:

1. User downloads(or builds) and burns a liveDisk .iso image.
2. User boots it up. Adds software. Creates encrypted wallets. Makes it pretty.
3. User 'reproduces' the system as a new .iso and writes it to CD/DVD or USB disk
...

I currently have a very basic bitcoin livedisk version which can be downloaded (768mb) here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4kVxAbllVkIWXhKZlo3bXJyS00/edit?usp=sharing

It contains:

Bitcoin-Qt
Bitcoin Armory
VanityGen
Electrum
BitAddress
livedisk_tools (https://github.com/willish/livedisk_tools) including things such as 'livedisk-reproduce' for making baby .ISOs!

Screen shots:

I also have a GUI-less, Bitcoin-tool-less, bootstrap.iso at 387mb, here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4kVxAbllVkIQWlTbmF2UGxRUFE/edit?usp=sharing

Of course, everything can also be built manually. The build process is as follows:

Building the bootstrap.iso

1. Install Vagrant www.vagrantup.com

Code:

git clone git://github.com/willish/livedisk_bootstrap.git .
cd build_amd64 # or build_i386
vagrant up

Building the liveDisk-bitcoin distro

1. Find a decent sized USB flash disk (8gb would do nicely). **This will be completely wiped!**

2. Boot the 'bootstrap.iso`. Select 3rd boot option (with flash storage)

3. `sudo livedisk-init-flash /dev/sdX` (where /dev/sdX is replaced by the path to your USB device)

4. `sudo livedisk-install bitcoin` (and wait a while!)

5. Reboot and again select 3rd boot option

6. Customize your distro!

Save your modified distro to a new .iso

1. `sudo livedisk-reproduce flash` to make your customized liveDisk .iso

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