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Installing Tor & Privoxy under Debian
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Installation
# apt-get install tor privoxy
Edit /etc/privoxy/config and uncomment the following line:
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
Then restart the service
# /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
Usage
HTTP proxy through privoxy & tor
http 127.0.0.1 port 8118
E.g. for wget:
$ export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/
The extension torbutton provides an easy way to toggle the usage of Tor
To test privoxy, try to access the following page: http://p.p/
SOCKS 5 proxy through tor
socks5 127.0.0.1 port 9050
Or for applications without proxy configuration available, check torify which uses LD_PRELOAD, e.g.
$ torify irssi
The extension Foxyproxy for Firefox contains already a pre-configured "Tor" setting on which you can add URL matches or use it all the time, it can be tuned to use also Privoxy. See also the extension torbutton presented in the previous section.
To test Tor, try to access the following hidden service: http://duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion/
DNS resolution through tor
$ tor-resolve wiki.yobi.be 85.17.183.154 $ tor-resolve -x 85.17.183.154 www.yobi.be
SSH through tor
See the connect.c helper program to make it possible.
Note that you should use only IPs when using ssh, you can use tor-resolve for the DNS resolution as seen in the previous point.
connect is available as a Debian package:
apt-get install connect-proxy
Advanced usages
- Configuring a Tor relay, under Debian it seems you've just to tune /etc/tor/torrc
- Configuring hidden services for Tor
- Using special addresses, cf /usr/share/doc/tor/spec/address-spec.txt
- [hostname].[name-or-digest].exit to choose the exit Tor node
- [digest].onion to connect to a hidden service
- [string].noconnect to immediately close the connection without attaching it to any circuit