turnkey-bitkey-13.0 (1) turnkey; urgency=low * Initial public release of BitKey. * Minimal desktop environment: - Standalone window manager (metacity). - Customized desktop keybindings for window manipulation (convenience). - Custom packaged metacity theme (zukitwo). - Cursor theme (dmz-white). - Lightweight application launcher (wbar). - Terminal emulator with customized keybindings (mrxvt). - Network manager with default configured interfaces (wicd). - Includes popular wifi modules out of the box. - File manager for accessing file system / media devices (thunar). - USB storage device auto-mounting support (convenience). * Boot to desktop: - Supports 3 boot modes: cold-offline, cold-online, hot-online. - Networking components are purged in cold-offline mode (security). - Application launchers customized depending on boot mode (UX). - Preseeded inithooks for uninterrupted boot process (convenience). - Different wallpapers depending on boot mode as a visual queue (UX). - Getting started prompt (UX). * Electrum: - Custom patch for watch-only to support boot modes (UX). - Custom developed electrum-wrapper (UX, security). - Wrapper leverages LUKS encrypted loopback files for wallet storage (security). - Custom developed passphrase dialog with zxcvbn integration (security). - Watch-only seedless wallet automatically created (convenience). * Chromium: - Customized defaults for BitKey (homepage, bookmarks). - Launcher defaults to incognito mode and deletes cache (privacy). - Suppressed welcome page, bubbles, promo tab (UX). * Bundled JS apps: - Launched in chromium app mode with dummy proxy settings. - BitAddress: Alternative to Electrum for wallet creation. - ZXCVBN: Passphrase strength estimator. -- Alon Swartz Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:21:08 +0300