Kicksecure ™ Packages for Debian Hosts and Kicksecure ™ Host Enhancements

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Introduction[edit]

Many of the packages developed under the Kicksecure ™ umbrella can be thought of as independent projects in their own right. They are directly relevant to Debian hosts because they can increase privacy and security.

This guide shows how to download these select packages from the Kicksecure ™ repository; they can be downloaded stand-alone or combined.

How-to: Install Kicksecure ™ Packages[edit]

Complete the following steps to add the Kicksecure ™ Signing Key to the system's APT keyring.

Open a terminal.

1. Package curl needs to be installed.

Install curl. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.

A. Update the package lists.

sudo apt update

B. Upgrade the system.

sudo apt full-upgrade

C. Install the curl package.

Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends curl

D. Done.

The procedure of installing curl is complete.

2. Download Kicksecure ™ Signing Key. [1]

If you are using Debian, run.

curl --tlsv1.3 --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url https://www.kicksecure.com/keys/derivative.asc

Downloading over onion requires an already functional system Tor. torsocks curl --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url http://www.w5j6stm77zs6652pgsij4awcjeel3eco7kvipheu6mtr623eyyehj4yd.onion/keys/derivative.asc

If you are using a Qubes Debian Template, run.

curl --proxy http://127.0.0.1:8082/ --tlsv1.3 --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url https://www.kicksecure.com/keys/derivative.asc

Downloading over onion requires an already functional system Tor. torsocks curl --proxy http://127.0.0.1:8082/ --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url http://www.w5j6stm77zs6652pgsij4awcjeel3eco7kvipheu6mtr623eyyehj4yd.onion/keys/derivative.asc

3. Users can check Kicksecure ™ Signing Key for better security.

4. Done.

The procedure of adding the Kicksecure ™ signing key is now complete.

Add Kicksecure ™ Repository.

Choose either: Option A, Option B OR Option C

Option A: Add Kicksecure ™ Onion Repository.

To add Kicksecure ™ Repository over Onion please install apt-transport-tor from the Debian repository.

sudo apt install apt-transport-tor

Add Kicksecure ™ APT repository for default Kicksecure ™ using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was bullseye.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] tor+http://deb.w5j6stm77zs6652pgsij4awcjeel3eco7kvipheu6mtr623eyyehj4yd.onion bullseye main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

Option B: Add Kicksecure ™ Clearnet Repository over Tor.

To add Kicksecure ™ Repository over torified clearnet install apt-transport-tor from the Debian repository.

sudo apt install apt-transport-tor

Add Kicksecure ™ APT repository for default Kicksecure ™ using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was bullseye.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] tor+https://deb.kicksecure.com bullseye main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

Option C: Add Kicksecure Clearnet Repository over clearnet.

NOTE: When later using Kicksecure ™ repository tool, then this will be upgraded to "Clearnet Rep. via Tor", unless see footnote. [2]

To add Kicksecure ™ Repository over clearnet please add Kicksecure ™ APT repository for default Kicksecure ™ using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was bullseye.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] https://deb.kicksecure.com bullseye main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

Install package-name.

Install package-name. To accomplish that, the following steps A. to D. need to be done.

A. Update the package lists.

sudo apt update

B. Upgrade the system.

sudo apt full-upgrade

C. Install the package-name package.

Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommends is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends package-name

D. Done.

The procedure of installing package-name is complete.

Supported Packages[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ See Secure Downloads to understand why curl and the parameters --tlsv1.3 are used instead of wget.

    Placing an additional signing key into folder /usr/share/keyrings by itself alone has no impact on security as this folder is not automatically used by Debian's APT by default. Only when an APT sources list configuration file points to folder /usr/share/keyrings using the signed-by keyword the signing key will be actually used. Therefore deleting keys in /usr/share/keyrings is optional if intending to disable an APT repository. See also APT Signing Key Folders.
  2. ↑ Unless using repository-dist --transport plain-tls. See also man repository-dist.
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