Faraday 0.1.2, a pre-release. It runs on a laptop from a USB stick, or on a Raspberry Pi from a microSD card.
Faraday Starter Faraday Companion What you need Download and start
Faraday Starter makes flashing a USB stick and rebooting into Faraday easy. Download it and open it: it puts Faraday on your stick, then guides you step by step through restarting your computer into it.
For Windows and Linux, x86-64. For macOS with the Mac support, planned.
LinuxThe file comes in a .tar.gz. Extract it with a double-click, then open the file inside. Writing a stick may ask for your password. It runs on Ubuntu 20.04 and later, Debian 11 and later, Fedora 32 and later, and Arch.
WindowsWindows shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time, because the file is not code-signed: a certificate would name a verified person, and Faraday is published under a pseudonym. Check the file against SHA256SUMS, as in Verify below, then choose More info, Run anyway.
An antivirus warningAn antivirus can flag a new program that is not code-signed. Faraday Starter changes only what you ask it to: the stick it writes, an install if you choose one, a restart when you say. Check the file against SHA256SUMS before running it.
An app for your Android phone. It carries the guides to starting a computer from your Faraday stick, so the steps are in your hand while you are in the computer's start-up settings.
For Android 8 and later.
A laptop or a Raspberry Pi, and later a Mac. Prices are rough, in US dollars.
The better machine: its screen, keyboard and webcam are inside the case.
Imagefaraday-stick-0.1.2-x86_64-uefi.img.xz
With a 2.8 inch touch panel; the microSD card is its only storage.
Imagefaraday-pi-0.1.2-pi3-waveshare-28dpi.img.xz
The Pi image has not yet been tried on the panel.
Not built yet. The plan, from Apple's and Asahi Linux's documentation:
SourcesApple's pages that identify each Mac model, and Asahi Linux's feature-support pages. Faraday's README will list each model.
A desktop PC works too, with a plain monitor. Not a smart TV, a capture card or a KVM switch: each can record what Faraday shows, and a network KVM can also type on it.
With Faraday Starter, or by hand.
The image for your machine, SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.asc, from the files below or the release on GitHub.
Release 0.1.2The release key was made in Faraday and its secret part has never left a Faraday vault. Its fingerprint:
D1AF A712 ABEF 9010 9A1B 587F F153 6BE0 7E23 4CFD
gpg --import release-key.asc
gpg --fingerprint F1536BE07E234CFD
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc SHA256SUMS
sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMSOn Windows, Gpg4win's gpg takes the first three commands, and PowerShell prints a file's sum to compare with its line in SHA256SUMS:
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\faraday-stick-0.1.2-x86_64-uefi.img.xzFaraday Starter writes the stick or card and reads it back. By hand, use a tool that writes whole disk images, such as Raspberry Pi Imager (Use custom) or balenaEtcher, which take the .img.xz as it is, or dd on Linux. Writing erases the stick: check its name with lsblk first.
xz -dc faraday-stick-0.1.2-x86_64-uefi.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync status=progressFollow the steps in Faraday Starter, on the computer Faraday will run on. It shows them for that computer's maker, in order, and the steps that put the computer back afterwards.
On Windows, BitLocker first.Starting Windows after Secure Boot is turned off makes it ask for the drive's 48-digit recovery key. Without Faraday Starter, have the key in hand before changing any firmware setting.
By hand: turn Secure Boot off in the firmware settings, choose the stick in the boot menu, and turn Secure Boot back on afterwards. On a Pi, put the card in and power it on.
The guides, step by stepEvery file is listed in SHA256SUMS, which the release key signs.
| Faraday-Starter-0.1.2-Windows.exe | Faraday Starter for Windows | 40 MB |
|---|---|---|
| Faraday-Starter-0.1.2-Linux.tar.gz | Faraday Starter for Linux | 36 MB |
| faraday-stick-0.1.2-x86_64-uefi.img.xz | The image for a laptop's USB stick | 12 MB |
| faraday-pi-0.1.2-pi3-waveshare-28dpi.img.xz | The image for a Raspberry Pi 3's microSD card | 12 MB |
| faraday-desktop-0.1.2-linux-x86_64 | Faraday Desktop for Linux, for trying Faraday with public demo seeds | 13 MB |
| SHA256SUMS | Each file's SHA-256, and each image's and the Linux Starter's inside its download | 1 KB |
| SHA256SUMS.asc | Its signature by the release key | 1 KB |