Quote from: herpaderp on June 06, 2012, 01:41 pmwhat if you boot up tails from a usb does the usb need to be encrypted or only the partition on if you have one?Hi Herpaderp,I've only started playing around with TAILS as I use a different OS but my understanding is that you can have a live USB of TAILS both with and without an encrypted partition - personally I would prefer the "with" option as you'd have somewhere safe to store your Private GPG key, Bitcoin software and so on but there is a school of thought that says this is a security risk - though goodness knows where such people keep their own private keys!There's no need for the partition on the host system to be encrypted if you're not using it for anything personal. Of course you may want to encrypt the hard disk anyway as a decoy.Something else of note is that TAILS like many flavours of Linux natively supports encrypting USB keys - https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes/index.en.html so you could use a Live DVD in combination with an encrypted USB stick to store your GPG key ring etc.V.