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BeagleBone for Secret Agents

BeagleBone for Secret Agents

By : Joshua Datko
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BeagleBone for Secret Agents

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By: Joshua Datko
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Overview of this book

If you have some experience with the BeagleBone or similar embedded systems and want to learn more about security and privacy, this book is for you. Alternatively, if you have a security and privacy background and want to learn more about embedded development, this book is for you. You should have some familiarity with Linux systems and with the C and Python programming languages.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Creating Your BeagleBone Black Development Environment
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1. Creating Your BeagleBone Black Development Environment
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Introducing the BBB
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Creating an embedded development environment with Emacs
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Finding additional background information
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Summary
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2. Circumventing Censorship with a Tor Bridge
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2. Circumventing Censorship with a Tor Bridge
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Learning about Tor
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Installing Tor on BBB
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Understanding Tor exit policies
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Setting bridge-specific settings
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Starting your new Tor bridge
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Enabling port forwarding
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Adding physical interfaces to the bridge
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Determining your bandwidth with speedtest-cli
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Controlling the bridge with the Stem library
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Connecting to your obfuscated bridge
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Continuing with Tor-related projects
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3. Adding Hardware Security with the CryptoCape
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3. Adding Hardware Security with the CryptoCape
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Exploring the differences between hardware and software cryptography
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Touring the CryptoCape
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Discovering the I2C protocol
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Understanding the benefit of cape EEPROMs
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Creating an eLinux wiki site
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Keeping time with a real-time clock
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Trusting computing devices with a Trusted Platform Module
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Providing hardware authentication with ATSHA204 and ATECC108
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Encrypting EEPROM data with the ATAES132
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Combining the BBB with an ATmega328p
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Building a two-factor biometric system
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4. Protecting GPG Keys with a Trusted Platform Module
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4. Protecting GPG Keys with a Trusted Platform Module
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History of PGP
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Developing a threat model
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Generating GPG keys
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Protecting your GPG key with a TPM
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Adding the keypad
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Taking ownership of the TPM
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Extending a PCR
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Unlocking your key at startup
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Iterating on the threat model
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5. Chatting Off-the-Record
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5. Chatting Off-the-Record
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Communicating Off-the-Record – a background
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Installing BitlBee on the BeagleBone
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Adding OTR to your BitlBee server
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Marshalling your IRC connections with a Bouncer
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Extending the project
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A. Selected Bibliography
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Index
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Index

Installing Tor on BBB

The instructions provided in the following sections are geared towards the user running BeagleBridge on a home network. The bridge will consume some otherwise unused bandwidth and donate it to the Tor network. You should check your ISP's Terms of Service before running a server to see whether it's permitted. Also, you'll need to configure port forwarding from your home router. As there are numerous devices, each with their own configuration mechanism, you should consult your router's manual on how to enable port forwarding.

Installing Tor from the development repository

The Tor images in the official Debian repository are not as up to date as those from the Tor Project. We'll use the Tor Project's development repository to retrieve the latest software. This is especially important when you are running a bridge, as the bridge and the pluggable transport software are updated frequently.

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The latest instructions as well as the latest GPG fingerprint can be found on the...

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