Whonix

As we’ve noted earlier, Whonix is a pair of Debian-based virtual appliances that you must run simultaneously in two separate virtual machines. The iptables rules on the Whonix-Workstation force it to only connect to the virtual internet LAN and redirect all traffic to the WhonixGateway. This scheme prevents applications from ever knowing the user’s real IP address or accessing any information on the physical hardware. At first launch, both appliances take you through a brief set up wizard to familiarise you with the project and set up some components, such as the repository. The distro has an icon for the Torbrowser but doesn’t ship with it by default; instead the icon brings up a script to download one from a list of stable, new and hardened releases. Finally, WhonixCheck scans the current installation and tests the Tor connection.