Tails

Features-

• Installs Bitmessage

• Installs Mixmaster (if not already installed by default)

• Configures both Bitmessage and Mixmaster settings to work over Tor

• Configures Tails to autostart Bitmessage upon connection to the Tor network

• Replaces the launcher/icon for Claws Mail in the top panel with a launcher/icon for Bitmessage

• Implements Mixmaster notifications in Bitmessage such that, when a bitmessage is sent to a recipient whose bitmessage address label includes one or more <> enclosed email addresses (such as “Recipient <recipient@example1.com>, <recipient@example2.com>”), then anonymous notifications are sent to those email address through the anonymous high latency mixmaster network with a subject line of “spidey sense” and a body of “someone is trying to communicate with you on a safer channel”. Since most mobile carriers provide an email-to-SMS gateway, this can also be used to anonymously notify recipients via mobile text message that they should log on to a computer to check their bitmessages.

• Makes all of the above persistent across Tails reboots.

(note: As a result of the protection of high latency anonymity, Mixmaster notifications take approximately 7 hours)

Instructions-

1. Start Tails with a persistent volume and admin password activated or reboot with them activated after creating a persistent volume.

2. Download and run bitmix_tailsinstaller.sh (remember to give it executable permissions). You can use the command:

 wget "$":https://raw.githubusercontent.com/p2pmessage/PyBitmessage/p2pmessage/bitmix_tailsinstaller.sh; chmod 700 ./bitmix_tailsinstaller.sh; ./bitmix_tailsinstaller.sh; 

3. Reboot.
(note: Since the Mixmaster installation usually doesn’t complete until several minutes after the first reboot, Mixmaster notifications may not work on the first autostart)

This script is compatible with other Tails customizations as well as versions of Tails with Mixmaster installed by default, but for the safety of your keys we do not support overwriting/reinstalling/upgrading other versions of Bitmessage.