Lightweight Portable Security

Lightweight Portable Security, Public edition (LPS-Public) offers for free a safer, easier, non-persistent, multi-platform and DoD-approved means to enter the AF Portal, AKO/DKO, NKO, MOL, webmail and other CAC-restricted websites. Booting from a CD and running only in RAM, LPS-Public installs nothing, does not need administrative rights, and purposely cannot access the hard drive. LPS-Public is great for those with Macintosh, Linux, Windows, etc., those using others' computers and/or for more sensitive or risky cyber activity.

LPS-Public provides a Firefox browser with plug-ins, CAC middleware and a PDF viewer within a very thin Linux operating system. You provide a Mac or PC (x86, Pentium 2 or newer) with 256 MB RAM and a bootable CD-ROM drive, a firmware-updated, CCID-compliant USB SmartCard Reader (aka CAC-reader) and a wired Ethernet/network connection. The first step is to burn the free ISO image to a CD.

For more information, the ISO image and detailed instructions, proceed to the LPS-Public webpage.