vanguards - Additional protections for Tor Onion Services

[Patrick]

Tor version 0.4.7.16 in Whonix 17 is now considered obsolete. Any action required?

If you ask about vanguards, I can tell these do work in Whonix when conflux feature is disabled (I do not have a Github account at the moment to post about it there). While built-in vanguards-lite provide a decent protection for client connections of most Tor users, “vanguards-full” are still useful protection from more sophisticated, long-term Guard Discovery attacks against Onion Services. For mikeperry-tor/vanguards to work, user can simply add “ConfluxEnabled 0” to torrc. Vanguards errors be…