From acd37110d2fb5e3dcc2c7638448411e3dbf64aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roger Dingledine
After installing Tor, you should install +
After installing Tor, you need to configure your applications to use it. +The first step is to set up web browsing. Start by installing Privoxy (click on 'recent releases', then scroll down to the Win32 installer packages). Privoxy is a filtering web proxy that integrates well with Tor. Once it's installed, it should -appear in your system tray, as pictured below: +appear in your system tray as a "P" in a circle, as pictured below:
@@ -103,9 +107,11 @@ For more troubleshooting suggestions, see the FAQ. -To Torify an application that supports http, just point it at
-Privoxy. To use socks directly, point it at localhost port 9050. For
-applications that support neither socks nor http, take a look at To Torify an application that supports http, just point it at Privoxy
+(that is, localhost port 8118). To use socks directly (for example, for
+instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc), point your application directly at
+Tor (localhost port 9050). For applications that support neither socks
+nor http, take a look at SocksCap,
FreeCap,
or the
- The simple version: Tor provides a distributed network of servers
-("onion routers"). Users bounce their TCP streams (web traffic, FTP, SSH,
-etc.) around the routers. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and
-even the onion routers themselves to track the source of the stream. The complex version: Onion Routing is a connection-oriented anonymizing
-communication service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of
-nodes, and negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which
-each node knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic
-flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node,
-which reveals the downstream node. Tor provides a distributed network of servers ("onion routers"). Users
+bounce their communications (web requests, IM, IRC, SSH, etc.) around
+the routers. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the
+onion routers themselves to track the source of the stream.Tor documentation
-
Win32 users can use our Tor installer. See these instructions for help with +installing, configuring, and using Tor on Win32. +
+You can get the latest releases here.
If you got Tor from a tarball, unpack it: tar xzf -tor-0.0.9.tar.gz; cd tor-0.0.9. Run ./configure, then +tor-0.0.9.1.tar.gz; cd tor-0.0.9.1. Run ./configure, then make, and then make install (as root if necessary). Then you can launch tor from the command-line by running tor. Otherwise, if you got it prepackaged (e.g. in the ), these steps are already done for you, and you may even already have Tor started in the background (logging to /var/log/something).
-Win32 users can use our Tor installer. It will run Tor in a dos window -so you can see its logs and errors. (You can minimize this window, but -do not close it.) -
-In any case, see the next section for what to do with it now that you've got it running.
@@ -178,9 +171,8 @@ proxy that integrates well with Tor. Add the lineTo Torify an application that supports http, just point it at -Privoxy. To use socks directly, point it at localhost port 9050. For -applications that support neither socks nor http, you should look at +
To Torify an application that supports http, just point it at Privoxy +(that is, localhost port 8118). To use socks directly (for example, for +instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc), point your application directly at +Tor (localhost port 9050). For applications that support neither socks +nor http, you should look at using tsocks to dynamically replace the system calls in your program to route through Tor. If you want to use socks4a, consider using socat (specific instructions are on this hidden service url).
-(Windows doesn't have tsocks; instead, you can try - SocksCap - or the Hummingbird - SOCKS client.)
+(Windows doesn't have tsocks; see the bottom of the +Win32 instructions for alternatives.) +