Hardware components for LI
There are 4 main hardware components that each user should have before starting working with the Liquid Toolkit.
In the initial prototyping phase, the SD-card and the USB stick will be pre-configured for the users.
1. ARM board
2. The SD-card
Tech requirements
What is on the SD-card?
The card contains an operating system based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for arm processors
It also comes configured with a software stack (the actual liquid investigations tool kit)
It has version numbers and we will require updating it during the project to stay compatible with our developments.
Note: Single users can be totally fine staying or upgrading the SD-cards. Groups need to upgrade at once or might not be able to work together until everyone did upgrade, at our discretion.
3. The USB stick
Tech requirements
USB3 Stick of 8
GB or more with decent speed
What is on the stick?
The stick stores all the configuration needed in conjunction with a specific project and hard-drive.
If you are NOT in the setup-process, the system will alert you about non matching sticks and hard-drives.
If you ARE in the setup-process, the system will write the config to the stick and it will be “locked” to the hard-drive until it is erased and set up again.
4. The Hard-drive
Tech requirements
What is on the Hard-drive?
In addition, extra components can, but do not need to be used.
a second hard-drive (for cloning, copying, versioning)
a wireless usb-card (for network other wireless lan)
a cryptographic stick, like the yubi-key, gpg-stick, etc for extra security
monitor, keyboard and mouse to use the graphical interface on the board itself