Long Wiki Edits Thread

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Wiki integration needed:

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Ah okay - fair enough if it doesn’t usually work.

Don’t think I’ll try to play with CSS, too high a risk of stuffing something up on the wiki with my incompetence :slight_smile:

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Could you please add links from other pages to this page?

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Also this:

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  • Template {{VersionNew}} clearly states 15.0.0.6.6, but on various download and other pages it presents as “15.0.0.4.9”? Strange.
  • The download page for VirtualBox (VirtualBox/XFCE) also still points to:
    https://download.whonix.org/ova/15.0.0.4.9/Whonix-XFCE-15.0.0.4.9.ova even though 15.0.0.6.6 is the stable point release?
  • KVM download page points to 15.0.0.7.1 stable release. Will KVM & Virtualbox releases not stay in sync?
  • In our release notes (updates) we’re not really picking up Qubes-Whonix specific ones. Is there a github link just for that?
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Unfortunately, sometimes not.

Nothing Qubes-Whonix specific lately as far as I can remember.

Qubes is currently missing out:

Not directly. Some Qubes-Whonix specific changes go into individual packages rather than into the qubes-whonix package. Not much going on there lately. The “direct” but “incomplete” github links:

Thanks!
Server caching issue. Manually purged cache for now for now but original issue not identified / fixed on server.

Yes. Whonix VirtualBox 15.0.0.6.6 - Point Release

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Could you review Full Disk Encryption: Difference between revisions - Whonix please? @HulaHoop

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After thinking about it for a long time I decided to reject the changes for these reasons:

  • This entire section is meant as a workaround until fixed gnome-disks is in stable. Which means that ideally neither I nor anyone else should ever have to care about the underlying commandline interface to get something as important as block device encryption working.

  • Some instructions are redundant given the amount of data on the password best practices page. I advise anyone who has anything important to store to just use the maximum length passphrase instead of jumping thru hoops and debating what is safe with keystretching of all flavors (sha iterations, argon2)

  • Interacting with filesystems like ext4 formatting, should be done using gparted for simplicity. Whenever considering instructions we should not include stuff that can be done with GUIs or any other easier way. The wiki should be about the least complex way to accomplish complex things and no more.

I hope you try to understand my POV and aren’t put off by the edit rollback. I am a big fan of short and sweet documentation and don’t want users to be confused or give up because the page has become unbearably long.

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12 posts were split to a new topic: i2p inside Whonix-Workstation broken

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Could you review Full Disk Encryption: Difference between revisions - Whonix please? @HulaHoop

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Accepted. Happy data nuking everyone!

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Freenet with Onioncat

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Could you review Freenet: Difference between revisions - Whonix please? @HulaHoop

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Great. @Torjunkie is on a roll today :slight_smile:

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:slight_smile:

BTW that GNUNet page is a bit light on. I have to read up on it, but we don’t have many instructions there? Or not much we can add?

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ToDo for Kicksecure ™ Wiki Devs / whonix.org main Homepage Improvements is being worked on.

Could use your help with the text on that wiki page (which serves as a draft for homepage contents). @torjunkie

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Last time I tried it doesn’t work, may need a retest with Buster to see if the situation has changed.

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Yes, I like your ‘research project’ idea better in that thread. OK. Let me think about the wording for a bit.

(Off-topic)

When you get around to installing Tor v4.2.5, for the Whonix v3 onion service you probably want to implement the DoS Defense Extension. See:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-June/013875.html

Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):

Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using parameters that can be sent by the service within the ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used, the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes ticket 30924.

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A post was split to a new topic: Connecting to Tor before a VPN (User → Tor → VPN → Internet) Issue

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Connecting to Tor before a VPN (User → Tor → VPN → Internet) Issue can be far too hard to solve than calling it a documentation issue. Split to separate forum thread. I guess this forum thread is for actionable wiki edits only that don’t need too difficult research/testing.