whonix tor downloaded file location Whonix. Whonix is a desktop operating system setup designed for advanced security and privacy. This page describes how an Arch user may use a Whonix Gateway to route all traffic through Tor and receive many other the security benefits from compartmentalization as described below. Contents. Background on Whonix and Tor. The Whonix setup works by compartmentalizing two separate operating systems running inside of two separate virtual machines for greater security, while simultaneously routing all traffic through Tor. This greater security model provides several benifits: Only connections through Tor are permitted. Servers can be run, and applications used, anonymously over the internet. DNS leaks are impossible. Malware with root privileges cannot discover the user's real IP address. Threats posed by misbehaving applications and user error are minimized. The Whonix wiki provides many specific examples of attacks and software flaws that would normally pose a security and/or privacy problem, but are thwarted by this compartmentalization model. It also describes where this model may still fail so it's an important page to understand. The first operating system is "The Workstation" and is the OS you perform your normal everyday tasks in. The second is "The Gateway" that forces all traffic from the Workstation through Tor while providing the additional security benefits listed above. The main Whonix team provides both a Gateway and Workstation running on top of Debian, but Arch users may enjoy using Arch as their main Workstation OS. This page describes how that can to be done. Downloading and Installing Whonix Gateway. You will not use the Gateway for everyday tasks. It only serves to compartmentalize your Workstation activity from the internet while routing all traffic through Tor. Download and install the Whonix Gateway. Go to the Whonix VirtualBox page, download the "Whonix-Gateway" using one of the download options available, then verify download using one of the methods described on that page. Make sure you also have VirtualBox installed. Next, import the Whonix-Gateway inside VirtualBox by going to, File > Import Appliance > Whonix-Gateway-
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