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PQCrypto[edit]
 | It is estimated that within 10 to 15 years, Quantum Computers will break today's common asymmetric public-key cryptography algorithms used for web encryption (https), e-mail encryption (GnuPG...), SSH and other purposes. See Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto). |
Tools[edit]
Calculator[edit]
KCalc (Debian package) is pre-installed in Whonix.
To start it: Start menu -> Applications -> Utilities -> Scientific Calculator
Desktop Screenshot Creator[edit]
 | Non-Qubes-Whonix only!
Non-Qubes-Whonix means all Whonix platforms except Qubes-Whonix. This includes KVM, VirtualBox and Physical Isolation. Qubes: Screenshots only work in dom0; this applies to the entire Qubes platform, not just Qubes-Whonix. |
Shutter homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install shutter package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install shutter
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install shutter is now complete.
Desktop Video Recorder[edit]
vokoscreen homepage (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install vokoscreen package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install vokoscreen
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install vokoscreen is now complete.
Another good choice would be:
gtk-recordmydesktop homepage (Debian package). [1]
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop is now complete.
E-Mail[edit]
See E-Mail. Thunderbird (Debian package) is pre-installed in Whonix.
Encrypt, Decrypt, Sign, and Verify Text using OpenPGP; GnuPG Frontend[edit]
KGpg [2] and GnuPG are pre-installed in Whonix (Debian packages).
Documentation:
- GnuPG documentation
- Enigmail documentation
- KDE upstream KGpg documentation
- openSUSE KGpg documentation
- OpenPGP key distribution strategies
- parcimonie - privacy-friendly helper to refresh a GnuPG keyring (in Debian)
Image Viewer[edit]
Gwenview and Okular come pre-installed in Whonix.
Start menu -> Applications -> Graphics -> Image Viewer
IRC Client[edit]
The HexChat IRC client (Debian package) is pre-installed in Whonix.
Media Player[edit]
The VLC Media Player (Debian package) is pre-installed in Whonix. Users do not face increased fingerprinting risks because VLC does not run Javascript. [3]
Start menu -> Applications -> Multimedia -> VLC Media Player
Terminal[edit]
Konsole homepage (Debian package). [4]
Konsole is pre-installed in Whonix.
To start it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Work on Sensitive Documents[edit]
Audio Editing[edit]
Kwave (Debian package) is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, macOS and Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio.
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install kwave package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install kwave
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install kwave is now complete.
Image Editing[edit]
Kolourpaint4 homepage with screenshots (Debian package).
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install kolourpaint4 package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install kolourpaint4
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install kolourpaint4 is now complete.
Office Suite[edit]
LibreOffice (Debian package) [5] is recommended. It is a fully-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft (R) Office. A word processor is included, along with spreadsheet and presentation applications.
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install libreoffice package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install libreoffice
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install libreoffice is now complete.
To launch these applications: Start menu -> Applications -> Office
Printing and Scanning[edit]
Publishing[edit]
Scribus (Debian package) is an Open Source Desktop Page Layout accessible from the Applications → Graphics. It can be used for many tasks; from booklets design to newspapers, magazines, newsletters and posters to technical documentation.
Scribus has sophisticated page layout features like precision placing and rotating of text and/or images on a page, manual kerning of type, bezier curves polygons, precision placement of objects, layering with RGB and CMYK custom colors. The Scribus document file format is XML-based. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor.
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install scribus package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install scribus
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install scribus is now complete.
scurl - SSL Command Line Downloader[edit]
To securely download files or webpages from the Internet on the command line, scurl is pre-installed in Whonix. Users should preference scurl over wget, since scurl enforces strong encryption and is less buggy.
To invoke scurl to download a file, simply run (replace the https:// example with the actual file location).
scurl --remote-name https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/8.0.2/tor-browser-linux64-8.0.2_en-US.tar.xz
This will download tor-browser-linux64-8.0.2_en-US.tar.xz to the user's current working directory.
Refer to the scurl entry for further examples and a complete description of this tool.
Video Editing[edit]
Kdenlive homepage with screenshots (Debian package). [6]
To install it: Start menu -> Applications -> System -> Terminal
Update the package lists.
sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Install the sudo apt-get install kdenlive package.
sudo apt-get install sudo apt-get install kdenlive
The procedure of installing sudo apt-get install kdenlive is now complete.
Additional Software[edit]
Users who are unsatisfied with the recommendations here can install other applications of their choosing; see Install Software.
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ See also: RecordMyDesktop in Wikipedia with screenshot.
- ↑ KGpg wiki with screenshots.
- ↑ However, unrestricted access to the large number of codecs, along with the gstreamer and ffmpeg frameworks can expose the system to remote attacks. The risk is greater than with Tor Browser because the latter attempts to restrict codecs to a particular subset. No cookies are stored by VLC and no information is collected and sent. Original thread
- ↑ See also: Konsole in Wikipedia.
- ↑ See also: LibreOffice in Wikipedia.
- ↑ See also Kdenlive in wikipedia.
License[edit]
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