vanguards - Additional protections for Tor Onion Services

[Patrick]

vanguards broken with newer Tor version. Therefore unfortunately to be disabled. References, upstream bug reports here:

Connections drop on Tor 0.4.8.9

Hello, I use a stock Whonix setup with obfs4 bridge (port 80). After upgrading to Tor 0.4.8.9 connections drop mid-flight. I could barely download the latest Tor browser update 13.0.4, it kept failing after a few bytes. After many attempts it downloaded but browsing internet is broken, many images are downloaded partially. Downloading them manually with wget results in “unable to decode TLS packet” or something like that, the connection interrupts. I tried downgrading Tor on Gateway back to the …