Purpose of Tails.txt

Purpose of Tails
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The purpose of tails is to provide anonimity when Administering, Buying, Selling, doing Secured Transactions, Emails, and Chats to and from the Internet.

For this, we should use the following softwares for the following purposes:

Networking
1. Tor Browser - for browsing online
2. Pidgin - for secured chats
3. Icedove - for sending and receiving secured emails with OpenPGP
4. Liferea - for RSS reading
5. Gobby - for collaborative text writing
6. Tor - for securing online presence
7. Aircrack-ng - for wireless network audit
8. I2P - for anonymizing networks
9. Electrum - for bitcoin wallets

Encryption and Privacy
1. LUKS - encrypted persistent storages
2. GnuPG - GNU implementation of the OpenPGP
3. Monkeysign - OpenPGP key signing and exchange
4. PWGen - password generator
5. Shamir's Secret Sharing - gfshare and ssss
6. Florence - virtual keyboard as countermeasure against keyloggers
7. MAT - removes metadata in files
8. KeePassX - password manager
9. GtkHash - calculate checksums
10. Keyringer - command line tool to encrypt secrets shared through Git
11. Paperkey - command line tool to backup OpenPGP secret keys on paper

In addition to these, Tails comes with ready to use Desktop software:
1. LibreOffice
2. GIMP
3. Scribus - page layouting
4. Audacity - sound editing
5. PiTiVi - non-linear video editing
6. Poedit - edits gettext *.po files
7. Simple Scan and SANE - scanner support
8. Brasero - burn CD/DVD
9. Sound Juicer - rips audio CD
10. Traverso - multi-track audio recorder and editor