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Whonix Authorship. Code Contributors, Artistic Contributors, Other Contributors

Whonix is developed by an independent team of contributors committed to the idea that privacy and security are essential rights.

Current Contributors[edit]

Table: Current Whonix Contributors [1]

Name Role
Patrick Schleizer
  • Whonix founder and lead developer
HulaHooparchive.org
  • Whonix KVM contributor, miscellaneous
  • Research
  • Whonix social media administrator
Jason Ayalaarchive.org
  • Creative consultant
  • Usability testing and feedback
  • English language fixes
TNT_BOM_BOMarchive.org
  • IRC User Support (and any other chat platform)
  • Testing
  • Whonix wiki screenshots and Libre illustrations
  • Whonix social media administrator
  • Wiki auditor
torjunkiearchive.org
  • Wiki editor and research
  • Wiki documentation audit
madaidan archive.org
  • Kernel hardening [2]
  • AppArmor improvements [3]
  • Numerous, miscellaneous security commits [4]
Sirus Shahiniarchive.org
  • tirdadarchive.org (Tirdad kernel module for random ISN generation)
  • Security consultant
onion_knightarchive.org
  • Host operating system installer, ISO live boot (Whonix-Hostarchive.org)
Rob Stringerarchive.org, (github @Mycobeearchive.org)
Raja Grewalarchive.org
  • Kernel hardening
  • Numerous security improvements

For the full list of Whonix components and the respective contributor, see here. [5]

Donors[edit]

New program! Donors are now eligible to be added to a list of our donors. You are making a very important contribution to the maintenance and progress of Whonix. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Find out more about our Donor Recognition Program.

Past Contributors[edit]

Whonix would not exist in its current form without the significant efforts of numerous contributors from the community. Gratitude is expressed to all past contributors, big or small.

Table: Previous Whonix Contributors [6]

Name Contributions
smarm
  • TorBOX wiki editor
  • English language fixes
  • python leaktest script creation
  • Contact: smarm [at] hushmail dot com
Cypherpunks / Anonymous
  • TorBOX build shell script creation
  • Initial TorBOX binary releases [7]
  • Rewrote the TorBOX guide for VirtualBox, instead of VMware [8]
  • Improved the iptables firewall configuration and added a hardening section [9]
Joshua
  • Previous forum moderatorarchive.org at the legacy sourceforge Whonix forum
  • Contributed a phone number so the Google+ and Youtube Whonix accounts could be created
  • Documentation feedback
  • Tested Whonix images
scarp
  • Feedback on Whonix source code and change commits
  • Reviewed Whonix build documentation
  • Tested building Whonix from source code
  • Helped integrate TorChat into Whonix
  • Reviewed matters concerning public relations
Anonymous
  • Documentation feedback
CJ
  • Created the original TorBOX logo
Cuan Knaggs
  • Created the Whonix stream isolation graphic
  • Contact: revolverarchive.org print media for graphical web design, web development, cms and e-commerce
fortasse
WhonixQubes
  • First Whonix integration into Qubes
IronSoldier
  • IRC User Support
Ego archive.org
entropyarchive.org
  • Testing
  • Forum user support and forum moderator
troubadourarchive.org
0brand archive.org
mig5
iryarchive.org
Inga Bemman
  • GI Engineer, contributor
Algernon
Devitra or Lilias_sorcha

Project Statements[edit]

The personal opinions of moderators The Web Archive or contributors to the Whonix project do not represent the project as a whole.

See Also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. Contributors are listed in rough chronological order.
  2. https://forums.whonix.org/t/kernel-hardening/7296archive.org
  3. https://forums.whonix.org/t/full-system-mac-policy/8339archive.org
  4. Including systemd sandboxing, blacklisting of uncommon network protocols, restricting hardware information to root, and more restrictive Whonix file permissions.
  5. Interested readers can also refer to a previous forum discussion about Whonix contributorsarchive.org.
  6. Contributors are listed in rough chronological order. Please add your name / handle and contribution(s) here if they have not already been listed. Wiki administrators will confirm your contributions prior to publication.
  7. February 2012; TorBOX was a forerunner to Whonix.
  8. February 2012.
  9. February 2012.
  10. Past role: Wiki translations coordinator.
  11. Forerunner to Anon Connection Wizard.
  12. See Comments to use Qubes onion repositoryarchive.org.
  13. See Whonix for arm64archive.org.
  14. https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-xfce-development/6213archive.org
  15. https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-irc-channel-status/5367archive.org

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