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Esoteric Issues

• Access Whonix-Gateway ™ Ports from the Host, and Make Tor Accessible Running Inside Whonix-Gateway ™ on the Host
• Enable the Global System DNS Resolver on Whonix-Gateway ™ (Unrecommended)
• Enable Transparent Proxying for Whonix-Gateway ™ Own Traffic
• Unfinished: Censorship Circumvention Tools other than Bridges

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File Transfers and SSH / SSHFS

• Add a USB Device to VirtualBox
• Mount and Inspect Images (IMG, VDI)
• Security Overview
• Shared Folders
• SSH or SSHFS into Whonix-Gateway ™
• SSH or SSHFS into Whonix-Workstation ™
• SSHFS into Whonix-Workstation ™ (Standalone Instructions)
• Transfer Files from the Host into Whonix-Gateway ™ or Whonix-Workstation ™ via ISO Images

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Miscellaneous

• Increase the Virtual Harddisk
• Nested Virtualization (e.g. VirtualBox inside VirtualBox)
• Secondary DNS Resolvers
• VirtualBox Tuning
• module, flexible Configuration Drop-In Folders (.d) and Ordinary Configuration Files

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Platform Support

• Whonix ™ using KVM
• Whonix ™ using QEMU (Unmaintained)
• Whonix ™ using Qubes OS
• Whonix ™ using Unsupported Virtualization Platforms
• Whonix ™ using VMware (Unmaintained)
• Whonix ™ with a Physically-Isolated Gateway
• Whonix-Gateway ™ on the Raspberry Pi 3 B (RPI3)

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Tor

• Authenticated DNS / DNSSEC over Tor
• Configure Tor's SocksProxy in Whonix-Workstation ™: see Stream Isolation
• Encrypted DNS / DNSCrypt / httpsdnsd over Tor
• Hide Tor and Whonix ™ Usage
• Host a (Private) (Obfuscated) Bridge or (Exit) Relay
• Protect against Identity Correlation via Circuit Sharing: see Stream Isolation
• Tor
  • Blacklist Certain Onion Services from Connecting
  • Non-Persistent Entry Guards
  • Speculative Tor Attacks
• Tor Gateway Connections on the Local Network with a PPTP VPN
• Transport UDP Tunnels over Tor with a VPN

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Whonix ™-specific Activities and Configurations

• Backups and Restore
  • Backup Whonix ™ VMs
  • Manually Create Whonix ™ VM Settings to Restore .vdi Hard Disk Image Files
• Builds
  • Build Documentation, How to Build and Update Whonix ™ from Source Code
  • Manually Creating Whonix ™
• Design
  • Technical Design
• Desktop Environments
  • Other Desktop Environments (Gnome, LXDE, Xfce etc.)
• Firewalls
  • Whonix-Workstation ™ Firewall
  • Whonix-Workstation ™ is Firewalled
• Multiple Instances
  • Multiple Qubes-Whonix ™ TemplateVMs
  • Multiple Tor Browser Instances
  • Multiple Whonix-Gateway ™s
  • Multiple Whonix-Workstation ™s
• Operating Systems
  • Torify Other Operating Systems (Windows, Ubuntu etc.) via the Whonix-Gateway ™
• Repositories and Packages
  • Whonix ™ APT Repository and Enabling / Disabling
  • Whonix ™ Debian Packages and Safe Removal
• Whonix ™ Miscellaneous
  • Connections Between Whonix-Gateway ™ and Whonix-Workstation ™
  • Manually Updating Tor Browser if torbrowser-updater Breaks
  • Open a Port(s) in Whonix ™ and Port Forwarding
  • Redirect Whonix-Workstation ™ or Unix Domain Socket Files to Whonix-Gateway ™
  • Skip / Blacklist Selected Whonix ™ Postinst Scripts
  • Sparse Files

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