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Whonix
Whonix (called TorBOX or aos in past) is an anonymous general purpose operating system based on Virtual Box, Debian GNU/Linux and Tor. By Whonix design, IP and DNS leaks are impossible. Not even malware with root rights can find out the user's real IP/location.
This is because Whonix consists of two virtual machines. One machine solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other machine, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible.
This is only a very brief introduction. See Security for a more comprehensive description, security features and threat model.
Whonix is produced independently from the Tor anonymity software and carries no guarantee from The Tor Project about quality, suitability or anything else.
- Status: active (2012-12-27)
Homepage: https://www.whonix.org
Microblog: https://twitter.com/Whonix
- Corporate sponsor:
- Government sponsor:
- Funding model: based on user donations only.
- Location: completely international
user IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net/whonix
- devel IRC:
- Debian IRC:
user list: https://whonix.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/whonix-users
devel list: https://whonix.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/whonix-devel
- Debian list:
user forums: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Support
- devel forum:
- Debian forum:
wiki: https://www.whonix.org
Debian derivatives census maintainer: adrelanos <adrelanos at riseup dot net>
Debian derivatives census page: Derivatives/Census/Whonix
Debian page: https://whonix.org/wiki/index.php/Dev/Relationship_With_Upstream
- Distrowatch page:
- Distribution type: preinstalled virtual machine images
- Debian derivative model: uses Debian binary packages, modifies some configuration files, adds some scripts
- Based on: Debian Wheezy
VCS repository: https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix
Bug tracker: https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/issues
- Bugs forwarded to Debian:
- Architectures: runs on any platform capable of running Virtual Box
- dpkg vendor: Whonix
- Patches repo:
Docs about Whonix for Debian developers: https://whonix.org/wiki/index.php/Dev/Relationship_With_Upstream
Docs about Debian for Whonix developers: https://whonix.org/wiki/index.php/Dev/Relationship_With_Upstream
- Whonix glossary:
- Package comparison:
Popcon information: Disabled in Whonix. Reasons: https://whonix.org/wiki/index.php/Dev/Operating_System#Popularity_Contest
- Quality assurance information:
- lintian information:
- piuparts information:
- static analysis information:
- list of developers: adrelanos (active), smarm (inactive), anonymous (inactive)
developer blogs: https://anonymousoperatingsystem.wordpress.com
developer microblogs: https://twitter.com/Whonix
- derivatives info:
- mirrors file:
- changelogs pool:
- apt repositories:
## (Debian repositories) #deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free ## (Commented out Debian repositories) ##deb-src http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free ##deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb [arch=amd64,i386,armel,armhf] http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org testing main deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org testing main deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/internal/ stable main deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/internal/ testers main deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/internal/ developers main deb-src http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/internal/ stable main deb-src http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/internal/ testers main deb-src http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/internal/ developers main
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