Open Source Boot Software

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines.

A complete tty login experience, replacing getty, login, and xinit. Features a friendly curses UI with a username picker box. Acts as a display manager and launches X when .xinitrc exists. Handles failures and falls back to a plain shell if X does not start.

Boot Integrity Services (BIS) is a CDSA application. BIS adds digital signatures to boot images obtained via PXE and DHCP/BOOTP protocols. BIS includes tools for creating keys, certificates, and digital signatures, and remotely configuring BIS clients.

Eselstall Secure Environment to Launch Software you don't Trust At aLL: Combined chroot/setuid tool to easily launch background processes (servers) in a confined environment. Eliminates the need for su in the changeroot directory.

qingy is a replacement of getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Window System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, ...).

RAMdisk-based Operating System for conducting Security Audits. Includes hping2, xprobe, netcat, lsh, wardialer, and more -- all on 1 computer disk. Runs off your RAM, so there is no need to reformat your computer. Great for pen testing!

watches for Regristry-changes of keys like HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun etc. and pops up if something has changed, logs it, can ask google for the key found. Protects against Trojans and Viruses.

This project is based off of Sam Rape. The final product is a bootable floppy which copies the sam file, compresses it and puts it on a disk. A detailed description can be found at datastronghold.com/archive/t10429.html

This project provides a modification of the Linux boot sequence that allows a continuation of the boot process only if an encrypted filesystem can be used after entering a password. Without a successfully mounted filesystem the boot process will stop

Set of tools needed to setup and maintain encrypted partitions under unix systems (initially linux). Especially helpfull when doing root device encryption. Features xml configuration, multiple users, usb "tokens" (usb mass storage) and key hierarchy.

Getwifi allows Linux users to join wireless networks easily by joining available networks in an order specified by the user. Getwifi is configured using a single file which specifies networks, optional WEP keys, and the order in which to join networks.

rcstagger is a network aware process monitoring system designed to work alongside the init process (Note that it makes no attempt to replace init). It utilizes openssl to maintain PKI authentication to verify the identify of sibling daemons and any control clients.

sTrayD hides icons from the systray (system tray) in Microsoft Windows or it hides the systray entirely.