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
- Blog:
- Microblog:
- Corporate sponsor:
- Government sponsor:
- Location: completely international
- user IRC:
- devel IRC:
- Debian IRC:
- user list:
devel list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/whonix-devel
- Debian list:
user forums: https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/discussion/
- devel forum:
- Debian forum:
Debian derivatives census maintainer: adrelanos <adrelanos at riseup dot net>
Debian derivatives census page: Derivatives/Census/Whonix
Debian page: https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/RelationshipWithUpstream/
- Distrowatch page:
- Distribution type: preinstalled virtual machine images
- Debian derivative model: uses Debian binary packages and modifies some configuration files
- Based on: Debian Wheezy
VCS repository: https://github.com/adrelanos/Whonix
- Bug tracker:
- Bugs forwarded to Debian:
- Architectures: runs on any platform capable of running Virtual Box
- Patches repo:
- Docs about Whonix for Debian developers:
- Docs about Debian for Whonix developers:
- Whonix glossary:
- Package comparison:
- Popcon information:
- Quality assurance information:
- lintian information:
- piuparts information:
- static analysis information:
- list of developers: adrelanos (active), smarm (inactive), anonymous (inactive)
- developer blogs:
- developer microblogs
- derivatives info:
- mirrors file:
changelogs pool: https://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Changelog/
- apt repositories:
# Whonix only uses Debian repositories #deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib
Last updated 2012-10-07 00:00:40