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Qubes R2 Beta 3 has been released!
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Qubes R2 Beta 3 has been released! Dec 10, 2013 Joanna Rutkowska Automatically converted from Blogger ( original. Anyway, back to the R2 Beta 3 below I discuss some of the highlights of the today's release:. The seamless GUI virtualization for Windows 7-based AppVMs. And support for HVM-based templates. Eg Windows-based templates) is one of the most spectacular feature of this release, I think. It has already been discussed in an earlier blog post. And now instructions have also been added to the wiki.
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Qubes 3.0-rc1 ISO and roadmap for 2015
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Qubes 3.0-rc1 ISO and roadmap for 2015. Apr 23, 2015 Joanna Rutkowska. A lot of important news today. Finally, were releasing the first installable ISO for Qubes 3.0, the Release Candidate 1 (3.0-rc1)! Compared to Qubes R2, which we released. Last year, Qubes OS 3.0 brings major improvements in two distinct areas:. It implements the new hypervisor-abstracted architecture (which we call: HAL. And introduces a load of new features: Xen 4.4, new qrexec. Another problem were facing is how to avoid potential ...
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Windows 7 seamless GUI integration coming to Qubes OS!
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/11/26/windows-7-seamless-gui-integration.html
Windows 7 seamless GUI integration coming to Qubes OS! Nov 26, 2013 Joanna Rutkowska Automatically converted from Blogger ( original. Finally, after months of hard work, seamless mode for Windows 7 AppVMs is coming to Qubes OS! The seamless mode for Windows AppVMs is not. As the one we have for Linux AppVMs,. Because, unlike what we do for Xorg, the Windows GUI agent is not based on composition buffers extraction. This causes some,. Compared to Linux AppVMs. With the tools installed. Only in the Windows ...
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Encryption | Security Active Blog
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The findings and mutterings of a security professional. We take a look at Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker… Its Good. Elcomsoft are a Russian based software company, who make excellent security and audit products. Perhaps the name doesn’t ring a bell, but I am sure if you look at their product offerings. You will be more than familiar with their products. So here we are, reviewing this product, and seeing just how it works and if it does what it says on the tin. To visit the Elcomsoft site. Once its ins...
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Shattering the myths of Windows security
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2014/01/15/shattering-myths-of-windows-security.html
Shattering the myths of Windows security. Jan 15, 2014 Joanna Rutkowska Automatically converted from Blogger ( original. When I originally described the flexible Qubes Odyssey framework. Anyway, knowing all this, I still believed that Qubes WNI would make a whole lot of sense. This is because Qubes WNI would still offer a significant boost over the Just Windows default security, which is (still) essentially equivalent to the MS-DOS security model. Sadly this all has turned out to be a story without a hap...
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My Keys
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For email encryption and signing. I also use it to sign various other things, such as documents, code, and this blog. I use different keys for different things (e.g. different keys for my personal email and work email, different one for signing Qubes commits, and yet another for signing of this blog). Typically these keys are kept in different VMs, and often still separate from the VMs where they are actually being used thanks to Qubes Split GPG. All my keys are signed by the following Master Signing Key:.
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Qubes OS R3 Alpha preview: Odyssey HAL in action!
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/06/21/qubes-os-r3-alpha-preview-odyssey-hal.html
Qubes OS R3 Alpha preview: Odyssey HAL in action! Jun 21, 2013 Joanna Rutkowska Automatically converted from Blogger ( original. In a previous post. I have outlined a new direction we're aiming with the Qubes project, which is a departure from using a hardcoded hypervisor with Qubes (as well as hardcoded Linux as Dom0, GUI domain, etc). Our Qubes Odyssey backend. To support a specific hypervisor comprises essentially three parts:. A VMM-specific implementation of our vchan. Some minor configuration files...
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Physical separation vs. Software compartmentalization
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2014/08/26/physical-separation-vs-software.html
Physical separation vs. Software compartmentalization. Aug 26, 2014 Joanna Rutkowska Automatically converted from Blogger ( original. Many people believe the Holy Grail of secure isolation is to use two or more physically separate machines. This belief seems so natural, that we often don't give it much thought. After all, what better isolation could we possible get than physical "airgap"? I argue with this point of view in this new paper. Source of this blog.
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Qubes OS R2 rc2, Debian template, SSLed Wiki, BadUSB, and more...
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2014/08/06/qubes-os-r2-rc2-debian-template-ssled.html
Qubes OS R2 rc2, Debian template, SSLed Wiki, BadUSB, and more. Aug 6, 2014 Joanna Rutkowska Automatically converted from Blogger ( original. After Qubes rc1 release a few months ago. We have been hit by a number of problems related to unreliable VM start-ups. The most prevalent problem has been traced down to an upstream bug in systemd, which just happened to be manifesting on Qubes OS due to specific conditions imposed by our startup scripts. We have also moved our Wiki server to a bigger EC2 instance ...
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Qubes OS 3.2 has been released. Sep 29, 2016. Thoughts on the "physically secure" ORWL computer. Sep 3, 2016. Security challenges for the Qubes build process. May 30, 2016. Qubes OS 3.1 has been released. Mar 9, 2016. State considered harmful - A proposal for a stateless laptop (new paper). Dec 23, 2015. Intel x86 considered harmful (new paper). Oct 27, 2015. Oct 1, 2015. Jul 10, 2015. Qubes OS Project gets OTF funding to integrate Whonix, improve usability. Jun 4, 2015. Apr 23, 2015. Feb 9, 2015. How is...