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Thursday, April 10, 2014

How to Ubuntu Install Configure and Use tor torify

1)
What is Tor?

https://tor.eff.org/
https://tor.eff.org/about/overview.html.en
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO

2)
How to install

https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian
https://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

a)
Find My Public IP
#curl ifconfig.me

b)
Install Tor

#sudo apt-get install tor

c)
Restart tor

#sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart

d)
Find My Public IP

#curl ifconfig.me

e)
Find My Public IP via tor
#sudo torify curl ifconfig.me

g)
How to check ?

* Open google chrome with proxy-server point to tor
#google-chrome --proxy-server="socks://127.0.0.1:9050"

* Visit following sites in google chrome and check the result
http://www.whatismyip.com/
http://www.tracemyip.org/
https://check.torproject.org/

h)
You can also try lik
e
#export http_proxy = "socks://127.0.0.1:9050"
OR
#export all_proxy = "socks://127.0.0.1:9050"


3)
FAQ

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#Torisdifferent

How can I tell if Tor is working, and that my connections really are anonymized?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#IsItWorking

I'm supposed to "edit my torrc". What does that mean?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#torrc

4)
Download Tor Browser Bundle for GNU/Linux

https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

1 comment:

  1. After installing and restart tor,when a ran command export all_proxy="socks://127.0.0.1:9050" and then curl ifconfig.me,output is curl: (5) Couldn't resolve proxy name
    Please help me out in this

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