Vidalia

Vidalia showing a network map

Original author(s)| Matt Edman, Justin Hipple
Developer(s)| Tomás Touceda
Initial release| 28 February 2006; 20 years ago (2006-02-28)
Final release| 0.2.21 (3 December 2012; 13 years ago (2012-12-03)) [±]
Written in| C++, Qt
Operating system| OS X, Microsoft Windows, Unix-like
Available in| 30 languages

List of languages

Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Type| Anonymity, GUI
License| GNU GPL v2 (with OpenSSL exception)

Vidalia is a discontinued[1] cross-platform GUI for controlling Tor, built using Qt. The name comes from the Vidalia onion since Tor uses onion routing. It allows the user to start, stop or view the status of Tor, view, filter or search log messages, monitor bandwidth usage, and configure some aspects of Tor.[2] Vidalia also makes it easier to contribute to the Tor network by optionally helping the user set up a Tor relay.

Another prominent feature of Vidalia is its Tor network map, which lets the user see the geographic location of relays on the Tor network, as well as where the user's application traffic is going.

## Contents

* 1 Release
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Release

Vidalia is released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on any platform supported by Qt 4.2, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux or other Unix-like variants using the X11 window system.

Vidalia is no longer maintained or supported,[3] and Tor developers do not recommend its use anymore.[4] In 2013 it was replaced with a Firefox-based Tor controller called Tor Launcher.[5]

Vidalia control panel

## See also

* Anonymizing Relay Monitor (arm)

## References

1. ↑ "Plain Vidalia Bundles to be Discontinued (Don't Panic!)". 2011-10-20. https://blog.torproject.org/plain-vidalia-bundles-be-discontinued-dont-panic/.
2. ↑ Fioretti, Marco (2013-11-26). "Get a grip on TOR with Vidalia". https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/get-a-grip-on-tor-with-vidalia/.
3. ↑ "I'm having a problem updating or using Vidalia.". https://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-9/.
4. ↑ Hahn, Sebastian (9 February 2015). "Removal of Vidalia content from our website". tor-talk. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036833.html.
5. ↑ "Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is released". 2013-12-19. https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-bundle-35-released/.

## External links

* Vidalia Official Webpage

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Tor

People|

* Caspar Bowden
* Roger Dingledine
* Ian Goldberg
* Wendy Seltzer

Technologies|

* Tor
* .onion
* onion routing

Software|

* Vidalia
* Orbot
* Ricochet
* Tails
* Tor-ramdisk
* Tor2web
* TorChat

Related topics|

* The Tor Project
* HTTPS Everywhere
* List of Tor onion services
* Operation Onymous
* Operation Bayonet
* Darknet
* Dark web
* I2P
* Freenet
* GNUnet
* Online anonymity

* Category
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