[Whonix-devel] experimental optional Whonix BitTorrent downloads

[adrelanos <adr...@ri...>]

Only 1 in 22 persons (or worse) who download Whonix verify signatures
using OpenPGP as recommend on the download page.

Therefore, optionally we may from now start providing BitTorrent
downloads. BitTorrent has several advantages and disadvantages.

The good news is, if you download the .torrent file from a HTTPS secured
page, such as whonix.org (migration from sourceforge to whonix.org still
in progress, there will be a news about whonix.org later), in theory,
the download won't be as safe as if you used OpenPGP verification, but
at least as secure as HTTPS.

The disadvantage is, while you can easily download Whonix over http
using the Tor Browser Bundle, hiding the fact, that you are downloading
Whonix, you can not easily, anonymously download .torrent files over
Tor. [1]

The BitTorrent files are here:

https://whonix.org/download/0.5.6-torrent/Whonix-Gateway.ova.torrent
https://whonix.org/download/0.5.6-torrent/Whonix-Workstation.ova.torrent

If applicable, please try to download them and report if it worked for
you. If you want to contribute, please seed this files until a new
version of Whonix is released.

Don't worry. Http downloads from sourceforge.net will be possible as
long as sourceforge provides this great service. OpenPGP signatures will
remain available.

[1] http://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea