Introduction

Tails provides the user with the ability to store sensitive data encrypted in the Persistent Storage. However, some bits need to be loaded before reaching the Welcome screen, to allow the user to effectively use the Tails Welcome screen itself: language and keymap.

Sensitivity

Locale-related issues are not without concern, as has been extensively discussed on #5501.

It's therefore important to make this opt-in.

Design

Storage

Data is stored in Tails FAT partition. A dedicated directory (storage) is created, and each "item" is a file inside that.

The implementation of the storage itself is at config/chroot local-includes/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tailslib/cleartext storage.py