On 8/26/19 11:22 AM, David Hobach wrote:
> On 8/26/19 10:24 AM, panina wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> This is not strictly Qubes-OS related, rather inspired by Qubes.
>>
>> I've been struggling with some parts of Qubes usage. Most of the time,
>> it is overkill for me, and putting some strain on my computer. The
>> bugginess is also quite annoying, whenever I just need to do some
>> everyday work.
>> I've been thinking I'd like some form of dual-boot solution, or possibly
>> a Live USB that could be used.
>> Most of the time I work with ssh and webapps, so the only persistent
>> data I need to work will fit on a smartcard.
>>
>> My thought is to have an installation that mounts most of the root
>> partition as readonly, and uses ramdisks wherever the system wants to
>> write (e.g /var/log). I'm also thinking it should be possible to get a
>> fingerprint or somesuch of the root partition, and use my TPM2 to check
>> this.
>>
>> The system should also have a possibility to update itself, that I can
>> choose to do in environments that I feel is safe.
>>
>> I am wondering if anyone knows of an OS that works like this? Or if
>> anyone knows of tools that might accomplish parts of this?
> 
> Ehm... You're describing Qubes OS with disposable VMs there? The
> fingerprinting is essentially AEM?
> 
> If you need to keep your data on an external disk (SDCard), you can use
> either a manual approach with qvm-copy, permanently attach the disk to a
> single disposable VM with a fixed name or use an automated solution such
> as [1]. You might also want to look into qvm-pool.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/3hhh/qcrypt
> 

What I'm after is something that does what dvm's do, but not through
Qubes. Same effect, on something that boots on a USB stick or so, much
in the way that Tails does.

<3
/eira

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