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• Tor
• Tor Versioning
• Anon Connection Wizard
• tor-control-panel
• Why does Whonix use Tor?
• Tor Entry Guards
• Tor Myths and Misconceptions
• Tor Controller
• tor-ctrl-observer
• onion-grater
• Tor (Developer)
• onion-grater (Developer)
• anon-ws-disable-stacked-tor (Developer)

Tor Control Panel

Tor start, stop, control, logs, utilities

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Issues

• https://forums.whonix.org/t/tor-circuit-switched-off/8286/3
• https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6525
• https://forums.whonix.org/t/tor-controller-gui-tor-control-panel/5444/84 / https://www.reddit.com/r/Whonix/comments/mqxcwy/keep_losing_tor_connection/
• Later when Whonix starts using wayland, the GUI part needs to run as user while actions that require root access need to be outsourced to separate command line only scripts since wayland prohibits GUI applications running as with root rights.

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• Anon Connection Wizard
• Bridges

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