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Whonix (/huːnɪks/, HOO-niks) is an anonymity focused Linux distribution.
The operating system consists of two virtual machines, a workstation and a Tor gateway running Debian.
The initial concept was announced by Patrick Schleizer under the pseudonym Proper, and later changed to Adrelanos in 2012 before revealing his identity in 2014. His idea was to leverage a virtual machine acting as a transparent proxy to route all Internet traffic through the Tor network. This would have allowed one to mask one's IP address, prevent DNS leaks and avoid having to configure proxy settings for individual applications (or ones who do not support them).
TorBOX was at its beginning only a guide released on the Tor Project website, which also provided some shell scripts. Other contributors provided more information as TorBOX became more popular.
As the project's complexity grew, leak tests became increasingly necessary. Some contributors developed utilities to automate many steps and improve user-friendliness. Nonetheless, maintaining the build instructions for TorBOX while simultaneously updating the shell scripts became too much of a burden for the developers, who decided to drop the manual creation instructions, migrating them and focusing exclusively on the shell scripts.
Even then, complexity was still growing due to additional features or changes in line with security research. On March 25, 2012, with the release of TorBOX's 0.1.3, the programmers agreed to completely automate the build process and improve codability with a change in the developing process, brought by a new website with better capabilities than the old project's wiki.
The TorBOX/aos wiki listed seven released versions. With the advent of the third release, Patrick Schleizer, acting under his pseudonym Proper, released his GPG public-key containing his contact information,
The sixth version saw the first rename of the developer Proper to Adrelanos. However, the former username was maintained on the Tor Website until the seventh and final version.
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Whonix
Whonix (/huːnɪks/, HOO-niks) is an anonymity focused Linux distribution.
The operating system consists of two virtual machines, a workstation and a Tor gateway running Debian.
The initial concept was announced by Patrick Schleizer under the pseudonym Proper, and later changed to Adrelanos in 2012 before revealing his identity in 2014. His idea was to leverage a virtual machine acting as a transparent proxy to route all Internet traffic through the Tor network. This would have allowed one to mask one's IP address, prevent DNS leaks and avoid having to configure proxy settings for individual applications (or ones who do not support them).
TorBOX was at its beginning only a guide released on the Tor Project website, which also provided some shell scripts. Other contributors provided more information as TorBOX became more popular.
As the project's complexity grew, leak tests became increasingly necessary. Some contributors developed utilities to automate many steps and improve user-friendliness. Nonetheless, maintaining the build instructions for TorBOX while simultaneously updating the shell scripts became too much of a burden for the developers, who decided to drop the manual creation instructions, migrating them and focusing exclusively on the shell scripts.
Even then, complexity was still growing due to additional features or changes in line with security research. On March 25, 2012, with the release of TorBOX's 0.1.3, the programmers agreed to completely automate the build process and improve codability with a change in the developing process, brought by a new website with better capabilities than the old project's wiki.
The TorBOX/aos wiki listed seven released versions. With the advent of the third release, Patrick Schleizer, acting under his pseudonym Proper, released his GPG public-key containing his contact information,
The sixth version saw the first rename of the developer Proper to Adrelanos. However, the former username was maintained on the Tor Website until the seventh and final version.
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