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About

Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It's based on the Tor anonymity network, Debian GNU/Linux and security by isolation.

Whonix consists of two parts: One solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible. With Whonix, you can use applications and run servers anonymously over the internet. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP.

Whonix is free as in price and freedom, and it has been rated 5/5 stars by users of sourceforge.net .

To learn more about security and anonymity under Whonix, please continue to the About Whonix page.

Supported Platforms

Host Operating System	Knowledge	Recommendation			Security
Qubes	advanced	Qubes-Whonix (Download)			production
Linux	advanced	KVM (Download)			production
Linux	newcomer	VirtualBox (Download)			testing
Windows	newcomer	VirtualBox (Download)			experimental
Mac	newcomer	VirtualBox (Download)			experimental
none	advanced	x86 compatible			experimental
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Latest Blog Posts

Biometric Fingerprinting, Mass Surveillance and You Hardware Endorsed by the FSF audit if torbrowser-launcher GnuPG signature verification bypass attack applies to Whonix or other projects whonix.org apt repository – testers wanted! Looking for firejail / seccomp maintainer for better security! bounty overview – March 2016 General information on various clock sources such as tsc etc. by intel a browser is not a safe environment to type good read on the linux security wrt to entropy / randomness upcoming usability improvements that will hurt, TLS downloads, abolishing torrent downloads

Latest Forum Posts

How can install DarkCoin Wallet in Whonix Workstation? Error when open VM Apparmor profile for tbb without Whonix Templates incorrectly think they're not connected to a Whonix gateway. Changing hostname of gateway? (Whonixcheck gets mad) WIFI Options with Whonix Whonix in Virtualbox - connect android phone? No connection in kvm problem with Tor Browser in workstation Apt-Get Stuck??? settings for stream isolation for JDownloader ? Tor > SSH, dynamic port forwarding error: "listen: Operation not permitted" Enabling Wifi within the Safer OS Guide. Network stream of vlc player not work anymore on whonix nor host, but why? Issue with DNS on Windows XP Workstation

Whonix

Whonix-Workstation with KDE Desktop:

Company	none
Developer	Whonix developers.
OS family	Unix-like, based on Debian
Working state	Active
Source model	Open Source
Initial release	29 Feb 2012
Latest stable release	12.0.0.3.2 (December 14, 2015 (2015-12-14))
Latest unstable release	11.0.0.3.0 (June 17, 2015 (2015-06-17))
Marketing target	Anonymity; Privacy; Security; Personal computing; Location Hidden Servers
Update method	APT (several front-ends available)
Supported platforms	Qubes (Download) KVM (Download) VirtualBox (Download) | | PC x86 compatible
Kernel type	Monolithic (Linux kernel)
Default user interface	KDE
License	Free software, mainly the GNU GPL, and other licenses
Preceded by	JanusVM; TorBOX (see History)
Official website	https

Screenshots

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  Whonix-Workstation with KDE Desktop

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  whonixcheck

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  TimeSync

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  Stream Isolation

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  MAT - Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit

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  Flash Leak Test SocksPort and TransPort

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  Mozilla Thunderbird (called Icedove in Debian) with TorBirdy, see E-Mail

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  XChat, IRC Chat Client

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  Tor Browser, privacy by design. Fighting web fingerprinting and linkability.

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  Whonix is a member of the Internet Defense League.

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  Whonix is a licensee of the Open Invention Network.

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  Old Whonix Logo

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  Donate to Whonix!

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Footnotes

Whonix is produced independently of, and carries no guarantee from, The Tor Project.

Thanks to Tomchen1989 from Wikimedia Commons for the download button! 1 (w)

Thanks for the MAT public domain screenshot to awxcnx.de!

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