Everything About Tor [pdf]

There's no mention of Whonix.[0] Typically, it's a pair of VirtualBox VMs. The host machine can be running Windows, OSX or Linux. I prefer Linux, for perhaps obvious reasons. For stronger isolation between networking and workspace, Whonix can be installed as VMs in Qubes[3] or on hardware.[4]

> Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It's based on the Tor anonymity network[1], Debian GNU/Linux[2] and security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP.

> Whonix consists of two parts: One solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible.

[0] https://www.whonix.org/

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian

[3] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes

[4] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Build_Documentation/Physical...

I spent a couple of hours studying an earlier version of these slides on two successive Fridays with some coworkers. Now we know a lot more about Tor than we ever have before.

If I had a choice about how to expand these slides to go into even more detail, I would like to see a little more coverage of attacks, including their feasibility and effectiveness.

Any chance there's a recorded talk of this? It'd be awesome to have some of the detail filled in

Nice, detailed summary of Tor. Maybe the next step would be a hyperlinked one where the points lead to specific detail on them that two other commenters were interested in.