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Lean and Mean Docker containers
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age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. -
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Themis by Cossack Labs
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acra
Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL. -
ToRat
DISCONTINUED. ToRat is a Remote Administation tool written in Go using Tor as a transport mechanism and RPC for communication -
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teler-waf
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go-peer
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simple-scrypt
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goSecretBoxPassword
A probably paranoid Golang utility library for securely hashing and encrypting passwords based on the Dropbox method. This implementation uses Blake2b, Scrypt and XSalsa20-Poly1305 (via NaCl SecretBox) to create secure password hashes that are also encrypted using a master passphrase. -
passwap
Package passwap provides a unified implementation between different password hashing algorithms. It allows for easy swapping between algorithms, using the same API for all of them. -
go-generate-password
Password generator written in Golang, usable as a CLI or Go library. Provides options for human readable and accessibility friendly passwords. -
secureio
An easy-to-use XChaCha20-encryption wrapper for io.ReadWriteCloser (even lossy UDP) using ECDH key exchange algorithm, ED25519 signatures and Blake3+Poly1305 checksums/message-authentication for Go (golang). Also a multiplexer. -
goArgonPass
goArgonPass is a Argon2 Password utility package for Go using the crypto library package Argon2 designed to be compatible with Passlib for Python and Argon2 PHP. Argon2 was the winner of the most recent Password Hashing Competition. This is designed for use anywhere password hashing and verification might be needed and is intended to replace implementations using bcrypt or Scrypt. -
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Booster - fast and secure initramfs generator
[Booster initramfs generator](docs/booster.png)
Initramfs is a specially crafted small root filesystem that mounted at the early stages of Linux OS boot process. This initramfs among other things is responsible for unlocking encrypted partitions and mounting it as a root filesystem.
Booster is a tool to create such early boot images. Booster is made with speed and full disk encryption use-case in mind.
Booster advantages:
- Fast image build time and fast boot time.
- Out-of-box support for full disk encryption setup.
- Clevis style data binding. The encrypted filesystem can be bound to TPM2 chip or to a network service. This helps to unlock the drive automatically but only if the TPM2/network service presents.
- Systemd-cryptenroll type of binding. Booster is able to detect and unlock systemd-fido2 and systemd-tpm2 style partitions.
- Supports autodiscoverable root partition
- Easy to configure.
- Automatic host configuration discovery. This helps to create minimalistic images specific for the current host.
There are other initramfs generators similar to booster: mkinitcpio and dracut.
Install
Arch Linux
Install booster package from the official repository.
At the installation time this package will create a number of booster images in your /boot/ directory:
$ ls -lh /boot/booster-*.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.9M Dec 10 20:51 /boot/booster-linux.img
Void Linux
Install booster with xbps-install -S booster.
Run xbps-reconfigure -f linux to create the initramfs for a previously installed kernel.
Manual
Or optionally the image can be generated manually as booster build mybooster.img. Note that by default booster generates
host specific images with minimum binaries needed for the current host. Providing --universal flag to booster tool
will add more modules and tools and the result image will be bigger.
Once the image is generated it is time to configure the bootloader.
Usage
For usage instructions please see booster manpage using man booster or the same document [available online](docs/manpage.md).
Build
The project consists of 3 components:
initbinary that runs as a part of your machine boot process. It is going to be the very first user process run at your machine.generatortool that creates ramfs image with all components needed to boot the computerintegration_teststests that involve all components and use QEMU to boot from a generated image
These components use standard Golang tooling. To build any part do go build, to run tests do go test.
Run tests
cd {init,generator,integration_tests}
go test -v
Credits
Work on this project has been started as a part of Twitter's hack week. Huge thanks to my employer for its support of open-source development. Special thanks to Ian Brown.
Booster architecture has been inspired by Michael Stapelberg's project called distri. Initial version of booster borrowed a lot of ideas from the distri's initramfs generator.
Licence
See [license](LICENSE)
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the booster README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.