-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Tails developers!
Several months ago, anonym and I had a discussion about the future of anon-connection-wizard on the @tor-dev[0], where he said: > That said, this approach will not be viable any more some time next > year when the Firefox ESR branch drops XUL support and Tor Launcher > is deprecated upstream. It remains to see how the replacement of > Tor Launcher will look, it might still work for Tails. However, if > anon-connection-wizard would be a (more or less) drop-in > replacement for Tor Launcher in Tails, that would be immensely > helpful since we'd have a solution that will be guaranteed to work > for us without much work. And I guess as long as the UX is more or > less identical to the new Tor Launcher and rapidly adapts to > changes, and there are good translations, we'd probably prefer it > over the new Tor Launcher, since it probably will be even harder to > decouple from the web browser. > > Any way, I also see potential for future collaboration between > Whonix and Tails for extending the usefulness of > anon-connection-wizard beyond what Tor Launcher (and its > replacement) offers [2]; anon-connection-wizard targets the OS, not > just a single application, so it could integrate the choices of > network configuration (wired? which wireless network? MAC > spoofing?) and Tor configuration (proxy? pluggable transport?) in a > single place which probably makes more sense for users and also > allows us to more easily (optionally) save these settings so they > are restored the next time you visit the same network. This could > potentially even be used to help giving users control over entry > node selection to avoid persistent Entry Guards from leaking > information about you geographical movement. Now, though there are still a lot of improvements can be done, anon-connection-wizard is mature enough to be integrated into the upcoming Whonix14. Therefore, I am wondering if Tails community still consider it as a good idea to replace Tor-launcher with anon-connection-wizard when it is mature enough? Apart from what has been pointed out by anonym above, the following is some information that may be helpful for your decision: - - Here is a recent post introducing anon-connection-wizard which also contains a set of screenshots of it[1] - - the anon-connection-wizard UI is basing on Linda’s PET paper[2] and Tor UX team’s proposal[3] to new Tor-launcher. - - although anon-connection-wizard has not been packaged into Debian repository, all its dependencies are already available in Debian - - The future goal of anon-connection-wizard is to be packaged as a generic standalone application into Debian so that it can be used by different anonymity focused distributions like Whonix and Tails - - anon-connection-wizard do not assume user has a Tor or Firefox browser to use, which is a low-coupling design Thank you very much! I am looking forward to hearing your insights and having a further discussion with you! Best, iry [0]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012032.ht ml [1]: https://forums.whonix.org/t/gsoc-with-tor-and-whonix-anon-connection-wiz ard/4266 [2]: https://petsymposium.org/2017/papers/issue3/paper2-2017-3-source.pd f [3]: https://marvelapp.com/3f6102d/screen/31456320 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZpvvFAAoJEKFLTbxtzdU8FsMP/1Etht2GW2oSzr2eM03sZLsu QfaPAM/fInADlbAeheBM8GPh4OcJCPd0n1NWTxG3sbPU85sRUqZHNeuCUnEmPXUH egfbPjuuIRb6/CCbtXRV99TSyGhQUq7kdDkHQRr1kTCmXnQh6Yqi8fvIh4oepllf dQiKVu7Qg97j3BSJNFukYf9LIg6P0hudx6czOoNDn4cSdZdymp0W2Bj9E3kL86X8 tIwA7+6YSGeHkFV81TLcvnrKYgUI3XgyB8okccerjoUEJFnyYGIFpV8QORjUS2al Btok84B3eNynduYOB9WutBrvSvz1Z5tp/zsRvddYQLb7t7ebiBckZDnQrsFEJkl/ EDX9uy78iDvk1ZGov7Gecmbc/lWw/QLVifdkxVKY5qdA6gHA01q+tn3mspWEjnWQ CCEpNDbTMUD7YjJLSeNFTQJdNT2aO08KQj/acBgETgCZmSf/JG8XydS62OcOntG8 AfmywmVyaa6F2QSOvyklNi6qk6+Iply9s855ucOl3SmJdvJ7W1mPHvmZXMUK5xpq xNBLTAf8UgzOu8+A+yKtMvQmh13TQNzLIfMFuv423W+7nNg45cuIwB4ITjV5EZDn oDqrAc87z/rZXmPkffnrtdRcdw4zmrB5nNLoMSYe8Fl0+OC+TiIYKjwqQZdWJI+D 6PdcklerbSA73JDsmtwL =R2Xx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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