Do Whonix users stand out without Conflux?

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Hello. Now that Tor browser 13.0 is released with Tor 0.4.8.7, which enables traffic splitting (Conflux), do Whonix users (stuck on 0.4.7.13) stand out when observing clients on the network?

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Tor integration in Whonix

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Hello. Now that Tor browser 13.0 is released with Tor 0.4.8.7, which enables traffic splitting (Conflux), do Whonix users (stuck on 0.4.7.13) stand out when observing clients on the network?

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On the standing out part, see:

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Testing Tor 0.4.8.7…

Spams a lot messages of this type:

Oct 21 15:39:40 host vanguards[988]: WARNING[Sat Oct 21 15:39:40 2023]: Possible Tor bug, or possible attack if very frequent: Got 1 dropped cell on circ 17 (in state CONFLUX_LINKED None; old state CONFLUX_UNLINKED None)

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Bug reported upstream against vanguards:

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Yay!

mikeperry-tor commented yesterday

This should be fixed in Conflux linked cell not counted as non-dropped valid data (#40878) · Issues · The Tor Project / Core / Tor · GitLab. It was backported to 0.4.8; will be in the next 0.4.8 release

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Released http://eweiibe6tdjsdprb4px6rqrzzcsi22m4koia44kc5pcjr7nec2rlxyad.onion/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/release-0.4.8/ReleaseNotes

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It also needs to be available from deb.torproject.org.

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Unfortunately this wasn’t fixed.

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Actually I was wrong. Not happening every second anymore.