iry:
Hi, Patrick!
It seems that the post is not showing up anywhere on the Whonix blog (not on homepage or recent post or certain category). It can be accessed from the direct URL to that post though.
I tried to search the problem online but it seems there is not much I can do. Is there anything I did wrong?
Thank you very much!
Server caching issue. Cache cleared. Thanks!
iry:
Patrick Schleizer:
Would you like to post future content? Feel free to use News - Whonix Forum as your platform to amplify your voice.
Definitely! That sounds awesome to me!
Also, would you like to talk more about anon-connection-wizard on Whonix social media?
Very relaxed posting policy. Just post some random screenshots (existing ones are fine). Some random info, snippets, work done, future work, link to discussions, call for contributions, engaging with users, and whatnot.
Yes! The post I wrote on Whonix blog seems satisfied several requirement
here. I will try to do some adjustment on it and post them on twitter
and Facebook.I am not sure but maybe sending an encrypted email will be the best way
to pass me the confidential?And/or also other non-anon-connection-wizard, general Whonix/anonymity/security related content.
Sure! As long as I am confident enough to inform the public these
contents without misleading or obscuring them, I will be more than happy
to do so.
Credentials sent by encrypted e-mail just now. Also upgraded your
wordpress account so you can post without prior confirmation.
As for postings, donât worry too much. We better have non-perfect
activity rather than perfect non-activity. 
As for anon-connection-wizard in Whonix 14⌠Thatâs an ambitious goal!
The remaining for Whonix 14 is plenty and difficult.
https://phabricator.whonix.org/maniphest/query/5sZ7FpwCEQDz/#R
But should be doable.
We donât have tickets for it yet. But since anon-connection-wizard is working good enough⌠Could you create tickets please? Like for whonix-setup-wizard integreation? And help with these please? 
I guess throw out all connection-wizard code from whonix-setup-wizard and then just start anon-connection-wizard from whonix-setup-wizard?
From next year, we can abolish the Whonix first time setup disclaimer. And weâll enable Whonixâs repository by default for Whonix download version. From then, weâll only autostart anon-connection-wizard on Whonix-Gateway.
So depending on how long the release of Whonix 14 takes, we might not need whonix-setup-wizard changes.
I agree! That is an inspiring point!
Sure thing! Done: â T716 Integrate anon-connection-wizard into whonix-setup-wizard
That sounds awesome!
Yes! Letâs see how far the integration work can go!
Hi @0brand ! To avoid cross-posting, letâs continue the anon-connection-wizard discussion here.
anonym replied on tails-dev@ list, which sounds to be very good new! I will keep following this up.
A ticket for anon-connection-wizard future development has been opened: â T504 anon-connection-wizard development
A suggestion, not a strict rule at all:
This forum post will be the place to discuss new-features/plans/announcement and so on and T504 will be place to discuss code and implementation.
Hi @iry
Apologies, I should have know better than to start a new developmental discussion elsewhere.
Good news indeed! If they would be willing to share the workload, it could lead to other great thing. Like having time to sleep, eat, etc⌠
How to install anon-connection-wizard in a clean /Debian8 or Debian9:
install all the dependencies: sudo apt-get install git python3-pyqt5 python3-yalm python3-stem tor
anon-connection-wizard is using torrc.d feature which is firstly implemented in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Use tor --version to check if your Tor version is below that. Currently, you need to upgrade to an unstable version of Tor to use it, see this page for better instructions on how to upgrade Tor.
git clone https://github.com/Whonix/anon-connection-wizard
git clone https://github.com/Whonix/python-guimessages
sudo cp anon-connection-wizard/usr/* /usr/ -r
sudo cp python-guimessages/usr/* /usr/ -r
run sudo anon-connection-wizard to start it
That problem with that is, that uninstallation gets really hard. On source code changes, any files removed from the source, wonât be removed from the disk.
And these extraneous files then could interfere causing issues?
I agree!
Sorry that I was trying to make it using make deb-pkg because of my mistake. The following instructions by Patrick work perfectly:
Packaging is sorted out.
requires Debian stretch based Debian or Whonix 14
GitHub - Kicksecure/genmkfile: Simplifies Debian Packaging and Maintenance needs to be installed
make deb-pkgbuilds a package
make deb-icupbuilds a package, installs it and cleans up
see alsomake help
The first released tor version with %include feature is 0.3.1.1-alpha. When adding a %include line to /etc/tor/torrc but the Tor version is below it, Tor will stop working, which is a severe issue.
I have no idea when 0.3.1.1-alpha will become stable (and did not find any document on Tor life cycles) . Therefore, if 0.3.1.1-alpha still not become stable when Whonix14 is released, there are two ways to prevent anon-connection-wizard to add %include line to /etc/tor/torrc:
anon-connection-wizard into Whonix14 until the feature is included into stable Tor;What do you think, @Patrick ?
Btw, is âwhat is the Tor life cyclesâ a question worth asking on tor-talk@ ? Or it has been documented?
Thank you very much!
iry:
The first released tor version with
%includefeature is
0.3.1.1-alpha. When adding a %include line to/etc/tor/torrcbut
the Tor version is below it, Tor will stop working, which is a severe
issue.I have no idea when
0.3.1.1-alphawill become stable (and did not
find any document on Tor life cycles) . Therefore, if
0.3.1.1-alphastill not become stable when Whonix14 is released,
there are two ways to preventanon-connection-wizardto add
%includeline to/etc/tor/torrc:
- Just do not include
anon-connection-wizardinto Whonix14 until
the feature is included into stable Tor; 2. merge this commit:What do you think, @Patrick ?
Itâs not a single line change.
It needs all of this probably.
When we get close to Whonix 14 release, I think it would be better to
forward port what Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha does.
Since there is a lot work left until Whonix 14, I guess chances are we
are in time for 0.3.1.1 getting stable (or weâll add the beta or even
alpha if that isnât too crazy).
Btw, is âwhat is the Tor life cyclesâ a question worth asking on
tor-talk@ ? Or it has been documented?
Good question. Worth asking.
Patrick Schleizer:
iry:
The first released tor version with
%includefeature is
0.3.1.1-alpha. When adding a %include line to/etc/tor/torrcbut
the Tor version is below it, Tor will stop working, which is a severe
issue.I have no idea when
0.3.1.1-alphawill become stable (and did not
find any document on Tor life cycles) . Therefore, if
0.3.1.1-alphastill not become stable when Whonix14 is released,
there are two ways to preventanon-connection-wizardto add
%includeline to/etc/tor/torrc:
- Just do not include
anon-connection-wizardinto Whonix14 until
the feature is included into stable Tor; 2. merge this commit:What do you think, @Patrick ?
Itâs not a single line change.
It needs all of this probably.
Adds torrc.d directory support ¡ Jigsaw52/debian-tor@da6af2d ¡ GitHub
When we get close to Whonix 14 release, I think it would be better to
forward port what Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha does.Since there is a lot work left until Whonix 14, I guess chances are we
are in time for 0.3.1.1 getting stable (or weâll add the beta or even
alpha if that isnât too crazy)
Hi @Patrick !
Thank you for your answer!
I have found the core Tor
release
wiki page, which indicates that Tor 0.3.1 stable will be released Sep
5th. I guess there is no need to worry about this problem anymore.
Lesson I learned: If there is no document of a project available on a
search engine, always check documents on the official site carefully
before assuming it is not documented.
isis said in the tickets:
This API wonât be publicly accessible though, itâll be reachable through the API for #22871, and even then itâs only reachable through a special meek reflector as part of #16650.
Is anon-connection-wizard what Tails uses now? Iâd be happy to support Tails as well (but Iâd strongly prefer the connection to go through the meek reflector).
anon-connection-wizard has not been used by Tails now. But some quick and dirty test on integrating anon-connection-wizard has been done by anonym from Tails. Some details can be found here:
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2017-September/011638.html
meek has not been supported neither by Whonix nor by Tails so far. I will do some status report work in this post: censorship circumvention / Tor pluggable transports
I will also ask Tails about why meek is not supported by Tails, given that Tails does ship a Tor Browser.
The Moat API for BridgeDB document can be found here:
Support meek_lite in anon-connection-wizard. meek_lite is a meek-like pluggable transport implemented in obfs4proxy. Although it does not normalize TLS signatures, it is still effective to circumvention the Tor censorship in heavily censored area, like China. This feature will greatly increase the accessibility to Tor network in China, along with the incresement of usability of Whonix. See here fore more details: censorship circumvention / Tor pluggable transports - #3 by iry
Support custom bridges input validation check. The implementation does not strictly match all the invalid input. However, hopefully, this is effective enough to prevent inexperienced user from configuring it with obvious mistake.
Shall I rename anon-connection-wizard git repository to tor-connection-wizard? If we are going for it, we should do it now so we donât have any name migration work in future.